What’s considered the appropriate protocol when resurfacing after 39 months of silence? Does one acknowledge the digital ghosting or crack a joke? Smile politely, lips pinched together eyes serious, and divert the convo to never mind about me, how have you been? Try cram in everything that happened into one jumbled, tangled explanation or pretend like the conversation was paused, never stopped?

I don’t know any jokes.

I do know that I miss writing and I feel there is a pressure cooker crammed with stories that need to be told before they explode out of me, leaving my heart and brain in tatters. Is writing like riding a bicycle, something that is never forgotten and grows more comfortable over time? I hope so.

I look forward to sharing once again moments of truth with y’all.

Thank you for reading!