A Return

It's a pretty fabulous feeling when not only your family, but friends encourage you to continue publicly writing about your daily adventures. Over the past two weeks about half a dozen of my friends have mentioned the blog I kept while in Australia. Tomorrow: Mostly Sunny was a collection of my thoughts on work, travel, and social engagements in Brisbane and beyond. I started the blog when I first arrived in Brisbane in 2009. I was unemployed for the first few months of our time down under and found sightseeing followed by blogging to be a fabulous distraction from my job search. Writing about every day happenings and routines in a foreign country helped me find humor in the most normal daily occurrences. Once I started working 60+ hours a week, blogging became an even more important source of comic relief (and release).

We've been back in the States for over two years now, and while life continues to be filled with noteworthy adventures and milestones, it's the every day happenings that I still find worth reporting. I remark almost daily about how lucky I am to live the life I do. From daily jogs with my dog and trips to the market, to impromptu dinners with friends and late-night conversations with my husband, it truly is the "little things" that create the big picture. I find these are the incidents worth reporting, whether they be irritating, inspirational, or just plain old ridiculous.

Yesterday is Now is my follow-up to Tomorrow: Mostly Sunny. The setting is now Cambridge, Massachusetts - we're a long way from sunny Brisbane. While my current occupation fills at least 60 hours of my week, I still find time for home-cooked meals, drinks with friends, jogs along the Charles, and many more every day events.

For those of you in Australia, your yesterday is my now, and I dedicate this blog to you.