A Second Chance at Sand Castles

Somehow, despite a professional writing career that spans nearly three decades, I've successfully avoided this blog-writing thing. Granted, that writing career has sometimes wandered a disappointing desert in terms of creativity. No one, after all, wants an eloquent systems administration manual. They just want to administer, no frills added. 

On becoming an Etsy shop owner, however, I had to relent. At that point, I couldn't deny that, if one is going to commit to purveying things in a virtual store, one had best make good use of the virtual communities. 

Not one to hop eagerly aboard the shameless self-promotion train, I'd had the Etsy shop for more than a year without doing much beyond setting up a couple of items with marginal adieu. But I spontaneously began dabbling with pastels and, six months into that activity, decided to come clean and commemorate on my Etsy "About" page the reasons for my hesitation regarding art. I was finally starting to feel I could share what I'd learned from an excellent book recommended by one of my dear artist friends. The book describes in depth what I'd been experiencing, and provides lots of avenues for healing the creative spirit. Good medicine, indeed. 

It's an odd but welcome happenstance then, that getting over the art hurdles has made way for this new writing adventure. I have no immediate idea what I might discover, but I'm game to see what happens this time around, when I mix water with sand.