When I began the Electronic Writer blog back in 2004, I did not have the forward vision to see it progress this far into the future.  When it began, I knew that I wanted to be blogging, and Electronic Writer seemed like the perfect place for that expression.

Of course, around the time of the last Presidential election, the subject matter of Electronic Writer almost completely devolved into the realm of politics.  On a previous Presidential election, I volunteered to make phone calls to Ohio.  (I know there is a strategic importance in the undecided Ohio voters, but damn—both parties seem to shellac them with phone calls every election because we need the block of Ohio votes.)

While I dialed the numbers on the list they handed me, I realized that I could contribute more if I wrote and blogged about the political process.  Making phone calls wasn’t the best usage of my talents.  I have blogged through two Presidential elections since working the phone bank, and after this last one, this blog has been largely dormant.

Perhaps I was just sick of making posts to the world.  Or, more likely, perhaps I had sailed into a hole and couldn’t find any wind to get back out.

It would seem that a puff of wind has filled the sails and we are moving once more.  Once we get set back into the full brunt of the wind and get moving, there will be a course correction.  Specifically, my subject matter is going to be a bit different.

I completely understand the necessity of political discourse as part of the Democracy that we have here in the United States, but it is not my intention to solely write about politics.  Frankly, it is exhausting for me to write about it.  There are so many layers of complexity.  The greed is so naked.  The extremes are so audacious.  The truth has become so obfuscated.  To make things even worse, the discourse has become so extremely caustic that I feel a little bit burned simply being around it.

Of course, there will be politics here—it is an inevitable part of the country and world where we live, but . . . Literature, and writing, and authors, and my literature, and sailing, and life around me are what this blog used to be about.  It is simply time for me to return to writing about those subjects.

Course Correction—Be Advised.