For those of you who don’t already know, this post contains some surprising news: I resigned from my job. Yes, my new job, the one I started just a few short months ago.

It should have been obvious from my last post that the work-life balance was something with which I was struggling. It wasn’t the job–I truly did love it–but rather a combination of things, a laundry list of difficulties I should have seen coming but didn’t. Or, to be rather more honest about it, I saw them coming, but thought I could manage them. Long commute, family demands, less flexibility than I needed–a perfect storm of unsustainability for me. So after long thought, no small amount of prayer, wise counsel from my husband and others, I made the difficult decision to resign. I’m fortunate in that the split has been more amicable than I could have dreamed, though the parting last week was, nonetheless, bittersweet. I will miss the people and the work more than I would have expected.

But as one of my (now former) colleagues said on my last day, “It’s a wise woman who knows her own path.” Don’t know how true it is, but I’m hoping that I’m on the right one now.

Lots happening this week: my interview for the cable program  “It’s A Woman’s World” is airing today (MCN6, for those of you in theTwin Cities’ 7-county metro area, at 9:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.; it’ll also run on July 23, same times; for St. Paul viewers, cable channel 15 on Thursday, July 19 and 26 at 6:30 p.m.); after it airs, it’ll be posted to YouTube and my website. So that’s exciting and scary simultaneously.

Speaking of my website, I just completed a speed-of-light overhaul, which was sorely needed. I used a do-it-yourself template service, since speed and a zero-coding requirement were critical factors. It’s not fancy, doesn’t have a lot of bells and whistles, but it’s eminently more readable and far less user-unfriendly (all right, I’ll call a spade a spade: user-hostile):  https://justscribbling.com/.

I’m also being invited to work on a number of projects that have popped up, seemingly out of nowhere, during the last few days, opportunities that are not only enormously flattering but also reassuring that the events of the last few months were not mistakes, only course corrections.

At any rate, you should be hearing from me a little more often now–hopefully you think that’s a good thing, because I know I do. Stay tuned!