...back on the horse

What say you friends? It seems after a yearlong sabbatical, eerily to the day almost, I make my return to the blogging world. A lot has happened in the world since March 2013, in mine and the one at large. Here's just a few factoids in case you were under a rock:

• A meteor exploded over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk

• American scientists used a 3D printer to create a  lab grown ear (ew seriously? gross)

• Pope Francis became the first pope from the Americas, and southern hemisphere (BOSS)

•  Canada became the first country to withdraw from the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (Whatever that means)

• US government had a nice little shut down, no big deal, we'll balance that budget someday

• Edward Snowden does the American people a solid and reveals NSA's unconstitutionally spirited spying program (I would give him a pardon and buy him a case of Guinness)

• We lost some people to the Grim Reaper, like Hugo Chavez and this one surprised me: Tom Clancy! No more espionage and military science thrillers from the Cold-war fiction master

• I graduated from my master's program here in Colombia (yay me)

• I completed reading the first book in the Song of Fire & Ice series

• Caught up on all episodes of Adventure Time with Finn & Jake

• Landed a speaking part in a Hollywood movie (an interesting tale for another post and double yay me)

• ....still living in Colombia

Life has a funny way of distracting you sometimes. People can wake up one day and drop a habit cold turkey; whether it be a diet or exercise regimen, to reading before bed or daily meditation. In my case, I stopped my writing. This comes as a surprise, seeing that there was no major change in my life or time commitment keeping me from doing it. Even worse...I felt like I was getting good at it.

Maybe some writers of the past have gone through it before. Maybe Poe, Hemingway, or Marquez had lulls in their careers at one point or another. Perhaps to grow, the mind needs time to relax and reflect. Whatever the case, the itch to write and release cognitive thought has returned...

time to get back on the horse.