Hello, everyone.  Yes, I really am back here after an extremely extended hiatus.

It’s been a weird couple of years for me, with a lot of soul-searching, a lot of big problems to solve, a whole ton of changes…and absolutely no purely creative output whatsoever.

In the “pluses” column, I bought a condo, took some career risks, went on a dream safari to Africa, adopted two incredibly crazy and lovely rescue cats, and made a series of decisions to start getting my life back under control.

In the “not-so-pluses” column – w...