The Past Year

For those of you who follow this blog, I am certain you are probably not following anymore.  It has been nearly fourteen months since I last posted on any of my blogs, and many people have probably lost all interest in my thoughts and opinions on topics and general life as I experience it.  And with that, I apologize.

The past year has been a struggle on many levels, which I plan to explore in a series of blog posts.  All aspects of my life countered each other: my career affected my family life, my family life changed my personal life, my personal life changed through physical ailments.  And through it all, I lost vision.  I had nothing to look forward to.  I am not going to bore you with details of what I went through, thought I may use some things as examples. I will also not pretend that my experience was horrifying, or in any way worse than anyone else.  But there are situations and lessons, experiences I can share, which someone out there may have encountered, and dealt with themselves.

On this blog, I will focus on a favourite hobby: brewing beer. I have certainly done a lot of tasting, and took many notes which I will begin to compile and share with the group.  Along the way, I have not brewed at all this past year, however my wife Nicole broke into the hobby with her first batch: A Saison de Nicole.  Over the next few weeks, I will get that experience up on the blog to share as well.

  - Tom.