Chris Meller

It’s really amazing how something as simple as reading can get your creative juices and processes flowing again. During my blogging drought, I’d also all but totally stopped reading everything in my RSS reader. Over 1,000 new posts greeted me tonight when I revved it up again.

As I slowly dug my way out of this huge hole I’ve managed to slip into, I realized how much I was looking forward to writing. After just 20 minutes of reading some of my favorite blogs, I had all sorts of ideas for my own flooding out into OneNote (my new choice for random notes and blogging, BTW).

I’m not sure which left first, the chicken or the egg (writing or reading), but I’m glad they came back together, and I hope to make a full return to the blogosphere very very soon.

In the meantime, I would like to link you all to a post I just read by Wil Wheaton, which hits oddly close to home. As I sat reading it, I kept thinking “wow, this is me…” I’ve thought many times in the past about that very topic (life, commitments, etc.), and wondered if the way I felt was “normal”, or if I really was stressed out and stretched too thin. Lately I think I’ve decided that I really do need to get a grip on my life and figure some things out. This certainly isn’t the way I want to live out the rest of my years…