I honestly can’t believe it’s 2013. Not with “I thought the Mayans were going to be right” incredulity. My lack of belief lies more in the realm of where did last year go?

Yet, I wasn’t sad to see 2012 go. It was a tough year all around. A year of roadblocks and writer’s block. A year filled with wrist surgery, wrist re-injury (and now pending surgery), eight months (and still going) of some type of allergy-related illness, struggles with one great job, and shifting to another. All of this while attempting to raise a now-three-year-old girl. (That’s not a bad thing at all, just a bit humbling while very exciting.)

While 2012 was a tough year, it’s made even weirder by the fact that I went the entire year without posting here once. And I’m not sure why I couldn’t find the words or the inspiration. It’s like I lost my voice, and I’m just now trying to get it back.

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As some of you probably know by now, my site has been in “maintenance mode” for about a month. The reason: This blog was hacked. It was cleaned out, but somehow I lost pretty much everything in the clean-out process–posts, comments, images, etc. Through the Wayback Machine, I’ve been able to cobble together the majority […]

Got hacked. Messed up something. Essentially burned the blog to the ground in the process. Will have to rebuild and possibly rebrand.