3 years later ...

Today is Parks Appreciation Day. That's a nice reminder for me of why I got back to blogging in April of 2005. That year Mary, my dad, and I visited every single MetroPark facility--from Northwest Trek to HQ to every ballfield in town. I blogged about a lot of them, although I never got to writing up all of them.

This may also be a good time to do what I do every April and look back over the last year of the blog. My posts were a little lighter this year, averaging just about one a day. I hope to at least continue that pace, or possibly even step it up a bit.

But I'm trying to do a lot more writing outside of this blog, too. This past year got me back into the creative writing habit a bit more. In the last year I wrote a short play, a very short film, and then a novel (which I'm still editing, but there's definitely progress).

I'm also going to try to focus more on writing short articles and "guest posts." I had a lot of fun writing for Andrew Fry's Living & Working in a Virtual World last month and I'd like to do more projects like that for web and for print. I'll be sure to link around to them when they show up. Actually, I should have a fairly long article coming out on a local online site Monday. Which one? ... Stay tuned!