Downshifting

Been blogging a lot less lately. Lots of things to write about, not so much time to do it.

A few of the off-line things I've done lately are: opening 8 shows in a three month span, working on curating next years Alcyone Festival; reading and re-reading pretty much the entire body of Maria Irene Fornes' work (which is pretty awesome thing to do if you have the time); writing Trickster, looking for a space for Trickster, and all the usual fundraising, marketing, board development, etc.

Oh, and redesigned the website. Hopefully, it has a similar feel, but is the templating is much better coded, and quicker. (I'm totally digging on compressed css.) There's also fewer scripts running to get the same effects, so hopefully fewer conflicts for anyone who's still using IE. Let me know what you think.

But the real reason I've been bloggin less is a pretty good one, I think. I've been spending more time with the family. I know I'm not the only one out there trying to balance work and family life.

Saturday was Tony Jr's third birthday and below is the first time we've gotten a picture with all four of us in the same shot. (Guess who's eyes they are . . . )

The more time I spend with Jenn and the kids, the less blogging I do. I'm pretty fine with that. Sometimes balance comes natually, sometimes it has to be forced. I've met a lot of lonely old men, who never tried for balance, never tried to fit others into their lives. That's not the life I'm working for.

I'm not abandoning the blog, but I probably won't be writing every day again for a bit. So as life goes in ebbs and flows, so does my online writing. The busier I am off-line, the less I write online. The less I write online, the more time I have for parenting--hopefully that leads to two fewer assholes in the world in twenty years. A win-win if you ask me.