I know it has been more than a minute.

But I am here.  And so are you.

I am a little behind on my projected release date for my second novel and for that I apologize profoundly.  If there is something that I learned from the first publishing experience it is that an unfinished/unpolished book is a blemish as a writer that is hard to recover from.  This time I won't release it until I am completely ready in spite of my failed attempts to stay on a certain schedule.

I am pretty sure smart phones should be called stupid phones.  They aren't really that smart yet.  I was texting and driving the other day (I know bad and I am not proud of this or condoning this sort of behavior in any form or fashion) ...but I am telling you this is a very inconvenient discovery to make while you are trying to drive and send coordinates to another individual all at the same time.  I am trying to type Chillicothe, and automatically it starts jumping to conclusions about what it is I am trying to express.  "Yeah, I just left...Columbia......Chicago......Chile...I am getting frustrated because I want it to pick the right damn city so I can auto move on to my next sentence....and finally after entering five letters it figures out what I meant and I have literally never typed any of those words onto my phone in any text format EVER.

I want to throw this damn thing out the window some day.  But you know what they say, don't let baby out with the bath water, or something like that.  I don't know what that statement really means or how it pertains to my stupid phone.  The thing drives me crazy.

Just so you know, I am two days removed from my addiction to texting while driving.  I won't do it any more because I realized that all that really matters in this world is our "footprint" so to speak on the world at large....and I don't want to be that person that accidentally slams into a family of five head on because of something that could have been totally prevented. 

Maybe I should be called stupid, like the stupid phone....

I will let you make that decision (as if you haven't already), but regardless, it is important to remember that at every juncture in this reality we are given the opportunity to change our future.  And repeating mistakes is anti evolutionary at the very core, so the sooner we learn from our mistakes, the better...and better late than never.