Well, they haven’t been exaggerated, exactly, as you can see by looking through the blog archive.  The last month was intense.  First, I moved, and encountered in the process the wonderful Russian saying: “To move house once is to survive four fires.”  Nothing will make you less attached to your material possessions than the prospect of putting them in boxes, carrying the boxes to another house, and then removing them from boxes.  The Buddha should have just recommended his disciples move until moving liberated them from things.  However!  My wife and I are now comfortably ensconced in our new apartment, and enjoying ourselves quite well, thank you.

Second, there’s very exciting news on the writing & other strangeness front.  Most of it I’ll share with you as matters develop and clarify; for the moment suffice it to say that I’ve taken a well-deserved hiatus from editing to start writing again.  In the last couple weeks, I’ve finished the next short story for my Ring of the Niebelung project (folk opera-cum-short story cycle collaboration with my friend Dan Jordan – Wagner’s rolling over in his grave somewhere), and began to build a world bible for a comic project that’s been on simmer for months now.  Feels great to break out the ol’ AlphaSmart and make some magic happen.  Once the correct muscles are limber, it’ll be time for another book.

Watch this space for more news as it comes!