Where Have I Been?

This month marks TWO whole years since I’ve been to Jamaica.  That thought makes me physically ill in my stomach but I’ve been managing to mentally and emotionally block it all out because I had no choice.  While I’ve spent the last couple years enduring a ton of personal junk (much of it has kept me from traveling) I was happy to see that I’m certainly not alone.

I follow a couple other Jamaica blogs and I shimmied my way on over to Jamaica Mi Happy the other day and noticed her latest blog post called “Where have I been?”  It made me wonder, “Where the hell have I been the last couple of years?”  Depends which day you ask me that question because today I spent part of it with a close friend “tapping” to release negative emotions.  Then I spent FOUR HOURS on the phone with one of my blog readers and it was  a fantastic and inspiring conversation.  Then I spent the last 30 minutes before this blog post in a hot bath with cocoa butter – it’s minus 20 degrees here today.  Blah.

It’s been a looooong while since I felt inspired to write something but lately I’ve realized that writing is one of the very few things on the planet that feeds my soul.  Jamaica is also one of the things that feeds my soul.  I’ve been fooling myself thinking I should give up this online piece of real estate and just live a normal life but then I realized there is no normal life.  There’s just life.  And it’s up to us to live it how we want to live it.

Now that my personal and family issues have settled down considerably it’s MY time again.

So the biggest point I’m trying to make with this blog post is THANK YOU ALL for not giving up on me because I sure haven’t given you much to look at lately except a depressed and sappy version of myself!  I’m pleasantly surprised that in spite of my lameness my group of followers hasn’t dwindled….in fact it’s grown A LOT!  You guys are super awesome and I owe you!

I’ve been carefully planning 2015 to not only include Jamaica as much as possible but also to expand my business endeavors there.  I’ve been ignoring a lot of opportunities since 2013 mostly because I was unable to do anything worthwhile with them but all that is changing.

So thanks again for SIX years with Jamaica My Way!

Onwards!  It’s happening!