Shades of Mediocrity

The rumors of my demise have been only slightly exaggerated

So, yeah, Shades has been quiet for a long time. A really long time, like 5 months. Almost half a year. I did contemplate abandoning this blog, maybe starting over again somewhere else where I can be more or less anonymous. But after lots of thought, I've decided to resurrect Shades and continue the project I started here -- whatever that project actually is. I'm still not sure, but I want to figure it out. So I'm back, I guess.

I will continue to write about the topics that interest me most: education, libraries, music, literature, film, and of course, lots of hopelessly trivial pop culture nonsense. There will of course be lots of navel-gazing; what else is a blog for, after all? I'm hoping to post an essay of some length at least once a week. I may post more often than that, but then again, I might not. We'll just have to see how it goes. I never had many readers, and I'm sure I have even fewer now, but just in case there's anyone out there: welcome back! Come on in and be my friend. It'll be fun, I promise.