I'm back!

For now, anyway.

I've been fiddling with this blog for awhile now tonight. I changed the template twice before deciding I liked the old one best. Then I added some new links, including a link to my first magazine story. "Dying with Dignity," a long piece on hospice and palliative care, appeared in the January issue of North Shore magazine. However, North Shore has apparently made it so I can't link to their site from here. Ah, well. I put up a few newspaper stories I'm particularly proud of. I recommend "Ending Life on a Good Note."

I'm going home to AZ this weekend! I will meet Shane, hang out with Mom and Dad and Riga and Peter and Melissa and Grandma and Grandpa and ... most importantly ... see mountains! No, wait. The most important thing is that I will eat unbelievable Mexican food.

Dad might have to spend all day and all night working on May 1, since his Mexican employees at the McDonalds restaurants he supervises will probably be rallying. If I were going to be home longer, I would offer to work with him. It's been six years since I finally managed to quit the McD habit--successfully, that is. Of course, graduating from college and getting a full-time job had something to do with it.

Blogging for the Win!

Kathy (http://adeeperlife.blogspot.com/) yelled at me for not blogging anymore. Or, actually, she said, in mournful tones, "So, have you given up on the whole blogging thing?"

Here are the reasons why I haven't blogged lately:
1. two moves
2. psycho paranoid crystal-meth smoking roommate
3. new boyfriend
4. anaphylaxis and ER trip
5. allergy attacks, migraines and a seemingly unending series of viruses
6. discovery of new brother
7. break up with aforementioned boyfriend
8. established brother gets married in different state
9. craziness at work

But, here I am. Blogging. And it's all for you, Kathy!