OK..step away from the keyboard...
Category: Navel Gazing...
Posted Wednesday, September 13, 2006 at 01:31 PM [GMT-6]

I'm always slightly amused -- and more than a little bemused -- when I go a few days without posting and folks start emailing to see if there's a problem. Apparently, four days is the limit of allowable downtime, based on the fact that I've received more than one such email today. (Although, really, it hasn't been that long, as the Gazette's 9/11 memorial post was simply removed at the end of the day on Monday.)

OK, I admit to feeling flattered that anyone even notices, let alone cares whether anything new gets published in this space. I suppose I need to do a better job of announcing beforehand a lull in posting, but to be honest about it, I don't always plan those lulls. It seems like every couple of months or so, I hit a creative or motivational wall, and every idea I have for a post seems like dreck or I feel that someone -- everyone -- can write about it better than me.

Anyway, despite the fleeting thought that some of you might also need to take a break from the blogosphere every now and then, your caring inquiries seem to be just the right lever needed to break the chains of apathy, bringing back to life all the mixed metaphors and bad grammar that had lain fallow. I would apologize, but, really, it's your own fault. ;-)