Love (and blogging)

It’s been a while since I wrote regularly on this blog, and people have been asking, with decreasing regularity, why my blog posts sputtered out.

At first, I wanted to take a break to shake off the “I can’t wait to blog about this” impulse that was starting to spring up in the middle of almost everything I was doing, and was threatening the in-the-moment joy of life’s little adventures by making them into a kind of low-grade performance literature.

Then, in early 2007, I moved to Munich and got busy learning about another culture.  Moving to a new place has a way of disrupting all your old habits, so I stopped going to yoga and I stopped posting here, but I started programming a lot again (yay!), and running a few times a week.

And then twitter erupted into my social group like an invasive species and I found that my public-writing energy nibbled away bit by bit, never building past whatever critical threshold is required for something to be (dare I say) bloggable.

And then, unexpectedly, at a conference in Paris, I met the most dazzling girl.  Smart and kind-hearted, and with an incredible appetite for life, she lived in Munich.  When I moved here, she helped me find an apartment and get settled.  Somewhere in there, she completely stole my heart. And so, earlier this year, on a hill in San Francisco, I asked her to be my wife, and she said “why the hell not” (I’m paraphrasing here).

We both love to travel, and she’s amused by my sense of whimsy.  Over the last year we’ve had a lot of fun running around Europe.  (More on that later.) And so I’ve found someone I want to share life’s adventures with, and you guys have recently taken second priority.  Sorry about that, but I’m sure you can understand .

We do plan to have an actual wedding sometime next year, though we’re not sure exactly when or where.  So, stay tuned for future episodes, now featuring Stephanie (introductory glam shot below).