What a year it's been! (And then some. For about 14 months of it, I forgot I had a blog, until a fellow volunteer friend mentioned reading it and how funny it was and it all came back to me). I've restarted my amateur theatre company (www.thebroadwaychorus.com), went to Japan the day after it opened to tourism again (and learned Japanese, even reading it, for the occasion), wrote a novel (and when I have time, I'll revise that novel and seek publication, I swear I will!), and