New Beginnings, Commonly Done

It's time to leave Baltimore.  I've been teaching here for three years now, and while I almost always love it, the love affair of traveling across the country, alone, making it work, and digging my heals into a new territory has faded.  I'm left restless in my life outside of work.  A painful contradiction, because my life has been all about teaching, happily.  Well, my personal life has flourished in the last three years and emptied in the past year.  I think this is a good thing, even though it often feels like a bad thing; teaching is no longer enough.  

It's time to head back to Minnesota where more awaits.  

I've enjoyed blogging in the past, dearly, but have found myself saying nothing spectacular and thought it best to stop.  Well, now I just want to reflect on where I've been and where I want to go.  So much is about to change for me that it might be nice to put it all out there for myself to analyze later, for friends and any potential readers to comment on, and just to get back to public expression.  I want to feel a little bit like the writer I once was.  

Starting a new blog, something I've done once or twice.  It's how it works, you know, these blogs.