Blowing the lid off it all

If you knew me when I was blogging here a few years ago, I'm back. :-)

Due to having experienced a serious stalker in my life previously, and really not being *up* for that experience again, I'm still not using my real name. However, if you want to know who I am finally, I will give you this - http://www.mastocytosis.ca/who.htm - i'm the first person listed on the board of directors. I'm stepping down from my biggest role there this month.

Now that we have that out of the way....

I am in my free zone. I am about to step aside from trying to save people's lives because I'm too sick now. And really, people deserve fresh vision, fresh blood, fresh energy. This was my choice. It was either find someone new or fold it, give up and walk away. At the cost of how many lives depending on that organization I helped build? I started it as a support forum by myself in 2003. Yes, I have that illness. Now, it's definitely overdue for a stronger voice, stronger soul, and someone who can take it and run with it and make it what it needs to be. I know myself better than most and the one thing I can't do is play politics. I want to say, at this time in my life, everything I want to say - just blow the lid off everything whenever I want. So that's why I'm back. Hopefully wiser, more articulate (if I ever *was* articulate), and willing to share substance and value.

I've got SO MUCH to share and this little blog is not going to be the mindless ramble of insipid distraction it used to be. I'm sick. I have stuff to say. And I miss so many of my favourite bloggers.

So hang on, say hello, and if you gave me any of your valuable time before, I'm sorry I bailed on you while in the throes of grief. I'm back now and this time - I've got my personal strength back. I hope to be a very basic albeit massively unqualified variation of Christopher Hitchens. Pissing you off or making you think on a regular basis. Bottom line - i'm not hiding anymore, i'm not holding back, and at the very least, I really hope any time you spend reading anything I write makes a you think or laugh. Either one of those objectives met, it's a spot in the world where I can be and maybe not half bad.

Next post will be the last one I had posted on my Leafing blog, after my parents' deaths. To catch you up, to give insight to those who are new, and just to feel like I'm starting this time with the doors blown off.

Hang on. This will be a trip. If not for you, for me at least.