Just When I Thought I was Out, They Pull Me Back In: Well, it's official. I'm a blogging addict. I can't give this up. Not quite two months away from it, and I'm forsaking my family to rejoin the blogging life.

I'm not really forsaking them. They urged me to return. Smothering mothering is not working out well for us. Not only that, without blogging, my rants against the tort system, shotty medical research and reporting, and other topics generally covered by this blog have been falling on my family's ears. Too many times I've gone on and on about things medical, only to be met with absent minded grunts and glazed over eyes. Until finally one day, one of the kids said, "Mom, just blog it." When I announced at the dinner table tonight that I decided to resume blogging, they all cheered.

The internet is wonderful. I can cast my voice over the entire world in search of interested souls instead of relying on those within earshot only. My family's gain, your loss?