Okay, how is it the end of May already?   This year is flying by, and it’s already been packed full of magical and mysterious events, happenings, and twists of fate.

Contrary to what I said a few short months ago, it looks like Raleigh has gotten its claws into me, and I ain’t going nowhere.  I just got health insurance (after eight years without!) at my stable, enjoyable job.  I have been spending loads of time with my family, which I have been unable to do in a decade and come to find out, it totally lights me up inside.  I have been collaborating with two friends on an arts collective, first show opening at the end of September; more details to come.  I have been writing a book that has been spilling out of my brain in the most delightfully easy fashion.  I’m terribly upset about the oil spill.  I have found my niche once again in the social scene of Raleigh, and I am simply amazed at the offerings that Raleigh has been serving up on a platter for me; amazing food, incredible music, booming local arts scene, and fantastic new friends with which to share all of these things.  I’m looking into buying a house.  I am more in love with my dog every day–yep, I’m that lady.  We spend a lot of time frolicking in the sunshine, and I find the most peace in each day through this.  Oh, and my mojo is back; I’ve been gettin’ digitz like you would hardly believe.  That feels good after a longlong, dry season.  But like a wise man once said, “There is always rain after a dry spell.”

In summation, I am busy and (mostly) happy, enjoying life in my hometown, which, if you had asked me ten years ago, I would have said was simply an impossibility.  Youth is so fickle.  Now that I have put away my vision of what Raleigh once was, and I have come to see it for what it now is, I am enamored, comfortable, and actively building a life here, once again.

Charmed, blessed, lucky, grateful and goofy, as always.

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