Back after a hiatus

Well it seems that it has been nearly a year since I last blogged, since before we moved to Yapeen. I have often thought about writing but have experienced a sort of writer's block, something I have never had to deal with before. It's been like a sort of tongue-tiedness, where I have things to say but no words with which to express them. In truth, I've also been without energy - six months pregnant when we arrived, then caring for a new-born baby - and it's been easy to drop blogging down the list of priorities.
But now that baby Tabitha is five months old, it is time to write again. I know this because I have just had a visit from my dear friends Jessie and Pedro and their two children, and Jessie unwittingly gave me a kick up the backside abou writing. She told me of the people who she had told to look my blog up, and how one of them had bought the book I wrote of, Attack of the 50-foot hormones. The knowledge that I had let the blog, which at least one person had thought well of at some point, didn't sit well; in fact I felt a hot wave of shame wash over me as I realised how little I had done to further the cause of Telling The Truth About Pregnancy, and now, Telling the Truth About Parenthood, or more generally, Telling the Truth About Settling Down. I have been busy, distracted, and immersed in a new life; but I've also let that process detract from my ongoing identities of writer, proselytiser and thinker.
So I am back, hoping to post at least once a week. There is much to catch up on, and I will give some thought as to how I will go about bringing this site up to date. I hope someone is reading but if not, I think I know now that I need to write, no matter what else is happening.