September 26th, 2025

hello hello hello!  It appears that I have returned! YAAYAYAYAY!  I am so excited! 

It's been a long time my friends, about five months? something like that. And I hope you know that I didn't just wander off and get lost. Or lose interest and give up. I didn't get abducted by aliens or join witness protection.  I have not been here because I couldn't get here!  Way back in May there was some bizarre computerish thing that kicked me out of my own blog creation site and refused to let me enter again, no matter what I did.  No matter what Tim did. Just nope, not happening and I almost (almost being the operative word) gave up entirely.

I say almost because clearly, here I am again.  I tried to make my peace with the idea of never being able to blogpost again, I really tried.  But I missed it. I missed writing. I missed getting feedback from all of you. I missed that creative part of myself. So every once in awhile, not often, just now and again, I would quickly try again.  And then be rejected again.

Eventually I would have these little conversations with myself about accepting the inevitable and moving on and most of the time I would nod along with myself and agree and say, "Yes, this is probably a good thing. It's time to find a new creative outlet". But then I never did anything further. I mean never even tried, which is unlike me.  

Perhaps way deep down in a dark and dusty corner of my heart, behind cobwebs and a rusty old filing cabinet, I still believed that one day I would be able to return and that's why I never bothered to find something new and shiny to play with. Maybe? Or maybe I'm just lazy.

Either  way, today is an exciting new start to the same old blog which sounds like crazytown opposite day!  what I mean is that it's the same blog and it's still me, but perhaps a slightly different version of me. The one that reallllllly missed writing this blog and kept trying despite being turned away (in a technological sort of way) repeatedly for 5 months!  Perserverance is my name!  Well, no it's not.  Sam is my name but we already knew that.

So now what?  I'm not  sure I will be able to adequately "catch up" on everything that's happened but over the coming weeks, I'll give it a good try. AND I'll move forward with anything new and exciting, or old and boring, or just whatever is rattling around in my little punkin' head.  And if you want to reach out with questions or ideas or just a howdy do, I'm ready for ya!

Fingers crossed that today wasn't an anomaly, it wasn't a one-off and I will be able to return again next week at which time I will write a real post (like this one isn't real?)  At any rate, I hope all of you are doing well, healthy and happy.  Have a Great Weekend and if luck holds, I will see you again next  week!  

I love saying that!

​Hugs and hugs