This is my third foray into blogging after two failed attempts that are now frozen in cyber-paralysis forever (or at least until Bloggers servers surrender to the apocalypse.) I seem to have lost the passwords and the e-mail accounts that were used to create my other blogs: ericmack.blogspot.com and burbboys.blogspot.com. Feel free to check them out if you'd like to see what a blog in permanent stasis looks like.

So this time I'm trying a blog that actually has a purpose: to document the life and struggles of an aspiring freelance writer / producer. Ok, my half-ass struggles since I'm keeping my day job at a small newspaper for the time being, so it's not exactly a starving artist thing here.

Here's the background:

Grew up in Denver burbs, j-school in Missouri, 4 years working in public radio stations in Alaska, 6 months wandering around Asia brings us up to the present in Taos, New Mexico where I'm commuting 6 hours and working 40 hours a week at a weekly paper. Leftover time goes to fiance, wedding planning, family and freelancing, and now this blog apparently (that I'm typing during waiting time at work. I'm naughty) So here goes nothing...