"Brief" is such a relative term...

Well, I can't say that I'm ready to resume regular posting, but I figured the occasional post would be a good way to keep in practice.

Around the middle of next month, I should be getting on a plane and moving to Japan. (Again.) I am so pumped! I have really missed Osaka, which may just be my favorite city in the world. It will be a trip to move there a second time, (no pun intended,) and I'm really looking forward to the weird experience of new and old, things forgotten and things I never knew.

About three months ago, once I had fully committed myself to returning, I was shocked to find my Japanese already coming back! I had forgotten so much of it but apparently my brain was ready for deep recall once it realized I was returning. Cool stuff.

I've written several drafts, including one finished story that's not very good and one vignette for NPR's 10th Three Minute Fiction contest. Here's hoping I get featured so that I'll have some resume fodder!

Life's been in the slow lane, but this has been exactly what I needed, and I've been loving my journey through learning how to write well. Turns out that the late James Oliver Rigney (Junior) didn't start writing until he was 29... an auspicious example, if ever there was one!

In the mean-time, I'm packing and sorting and writing and relaxing, and loving every second of this calm before Operation: Tachinomiya Storm!

(Maybe my next post will have to be about Tachinomiya's?)