New years bring new blessings and an impatience for things that don’t quite “work”. My writing practice is flourishing for the first time in years. Most of it doesn’t make its way here. Obligations to work, school, and family make it difficult for me to make this blog a blog and not just a sort of dead-zone website. I would rather devote my creative energies to a more static and pukka site if I am unable to contribute regularly to an actual blog. Still – the impulse to communicate, reach out, and express is very powerful, and I worry that I will miss the outlet. I’ve been leaning towards discontinuing A Good Traveler for a while, so that I can direct the energies into something that holds space for the evolving meaning of what I do here.
We’ll see what the future holds!
Sankranthi Subhakankshalu! Happy Pongal!


“Say it ain’t so, Joe!”
Not even for a little while.
michael j
Conshohocken, PA USA