If you typed in your usual address for “A Year of Living Dangerously” and ended up here, don’t worry. I planned it that way.

I’ve relaunched the blog because I felt that the original direction I was headed was not working for me anymore as a writer. I want to focus on grief and mourning issues in addition to the ideas I had of blogging about “rebooting your life.” I still think this blog is about rebooting in a lot of ways, and I don’t think it really matters what form the tragedy that struck your life took (be it the death of a loved one or a catastrophic physical problem etc.), but I’m not going to shy away from the tough and difficult issues that like grief and anger and despair.

The reason for that is due to the response to my book, Grieving Futures. Most people who have managed to read it through (and really, that’s a lot smaller number than those who buy or download it) say that what really affected them was how brutally honest I was about my experiences. I think one person said, admiringly, “you just flayed yourself alive.” Which is a little extreme, perhaps, but the point is that is the aspect of the book that struck people, what they related to and found meaning in.

So I’m bringing that here.

This isn’t a negative blog. The point of facing up to bad things is to move past them and reboot our lives so we can learn to be happy (again, or for the first time) and personally fulfilled.

I’m not particularly optimistic, but I do think that attitude is important. The glass is only filled to the middle, but whether it is half full or half empty is entirely a matter of perspective. My blog — hell, my life — is about challenging the idea that we have limitations. We don’t, not where it counts, in our hearts and souls and minds.

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(FYI I’m still tightening up the blog; this is more like a “soft launch” – I need new graphics and still have some nitnoy things to attend to, like fixing links etc.)