...shortly, my ass.

but return, it has. consider this a soft opening... a single toe, testing the water, just barely breaking the surface...

i don't really want to get into the whys and wherefores of what became an almost nine month hiatus; let's just say the blog stopped working rather serendipitously and i deliberately neglected to fix it, because, for various reasons, i just didn't want it there at the time.

but then i wanted it back. slowly at first, a little at a time, and then more and more, the old urge to write has crept back into me until it's become undeniable. i tried to put it off until i had a design ready to go, but that, too, just became an excuse: so here i am, words alone. i think this is enough for now.

i don't really want to do an exhaustive recap of the intervening period, though a lot has happened in that time. I'm in a great relationship with an amazing woman who I've admired for years. I'm the head referee for the Big Easy Rollergirls. I'm still working for a great company, doing in-house design work. New Orleans is still in tragic condition, still decimated physically and spiritually. i am less than a month from my thirty-second birthday. life goes on.

i don't know what the future holds for unapologetic; i don't know if it will be similar or different in form or content from what it has been in the past - i have all sorts of thoughts and ideas, and which ones will win out in the end remains to be seen. all i know is that i have needed to be back here for a while now, and now, however slightly... i am.