It's been a while.  

I am back in school, full time, four courses this semester.  Anatomy and Physiology, Cultural Anthropology, Statistics, and Honors' Critical Thinking and Writing.  I am planning on finishing an Associate degree in Liberal Studies, an Associate degree in Business Administration, a Women's Studies Minor and either going for my Nursing degree or a Medical Lab Technician Associate degree with a fast track to a BA in Biology.  In addition, I am not working at the hospital a minimum of twenty hours per week.  It's all part of tying to make a better life for my family.  Let's not forget the three other jobs as well, the winter accounting, the summer campground managing, the publishing, and then, of course, my photography.  Oh wait, that makes four additional jobs, and I'm forgetting the crafty art type business that I'm trying to foster.  

So, the crux of the matter is, I want to be back here.  Not for comments and favorites, but just to feel like I'm alive again.  To engage in the act of creating something, even if it merely is re-editing old work, and to have it be out there is some manner.  I want to be again, to be something other than the ordinary person I am in daily life, to be able to call myself an artist again, to have some secret place in my being.  

So please, if you can, foster this with me.  I need it right now.  Not tomorrow, but now.