I have been conspicuously absent from this blog for weeks now, because my life took a cool new turn in December when I decided to pursue a lifelong dream of a career as a medical office administrator, and go to college.   Suddenly I am buying highlighters, drinking carbonated beverages at inappropriately early hours, and taking naps in the middle of the afternoon.

(Re)adjusting to life in school is a happy challenge that I am embracing and enjoying.  I am no longer a nineteen year old undergraduate schlepping my sorry ass to class in jammies, or a slightly put upon twentysomething graduate student quite certain that my Profs really do assign a heavier reading load than any profs ever, in the whole history of graduate school.  Rather, I am thirty eight years old, trying humbly and hard to balance motherhood, marriage, homework, dinnertime, and the ever-pressing need to do normal first world things like remember to shave my legs and apply deodorant.

I am still bipolar, but in remission, as it were, and still working on my recovery, a journey that I realize has been both a greater hardship and a more extraordinary opportunity for growth and self-awareness than I could ever have imagined.

So stick with me, readers.  There is more to come, on this blog and in this life of mine.   I hope, as I posted in early January, that 2017 is a year for all of us to surprise ourselves.