You may have noticed it’s been a year since last I posted.

Sorry about that!

It’s been a year.

I’ve been battling long-term depression and other mental illnesses too grim to mention right now. One of the results of this has been a loss of interest in writing—not writer’s block, per se; the words just weren’t coming to me and it made me more depressed, because writing is what I love to do, and I love to share things with you. 

Part of this feeling included this notion that what I was writing was too wordy, too mechanical, too work-like, and that I wasn’t being true to who I was and what I intended to do when I started writing all those years ago. Trust me, when something feels work-like, it kills the interest in doing it for seemingly no reward. 

Recently, though, the writing started to come back. Not quickly, but slowly, and with it came this notion that I need to be easier on myself. Not force myself to write when I don’t feel like it, but to just take it easy, be more conversational in my approach, instead of trying to put on a professional face. In other words, be more gentle with myself and not set myself up for frustrations. 

So that’s what this is going to be. A casual, easy goin conversation with you, dear reader, so that you can hear what I hear, and maybe you’ll find something new that will change your life or, at the very least, entertain you for a minute or two. 

Thank you for your patience in our absence, and welcome back to a new, reinvigorated website!

Best,

Joseph Kyle