Airing My Dirty Laundry

I had intended this week to write about a very special anniversary taking place in the moviesphere this month, but I am going to save that for a later post. Instead, I’m writing this week to apologize for and explain my recent sporadic approach to Movie Musings. It has been two weeks since my last post, which came two weeks after the release before that. This hopscotch of postings does not reflect any recent downturn in my interest in movies. It is not a statement of protest nor an awakening sign of indolence. I continue to love the movies as much now as ever before. The problem is I just haven’t been watching any lately.

You see, Elaine and I have come to the end of our time in North Carolina, and we are presently applying all of our energies towards the preparation of our imminent departure from the Old North State and forward to the Peach State. This is an exciting time for both of us, as it represents the next major step that we will take in our life together. But it is a bittersweet farewell, as most farewells tend to be. For North Carolina has been our home for nearly four years, and is the setting of many wonderful memories we will share and tales we will tell our children when they ask us to recount our first years of marriage. It is where we built the foundation of our married life. And I will miss it.

For all of you who have moved in your life, you know that a great deal of focus and emotion goes into such an experience, and so hobbies and extracurricular activities often get relegated to the back burner. Well that is where Movie Musings is right now. I am constantly thinking of topics I want to develop further, I write when I can, and will continue to do so as long as our move to Georgia allows me the opportunities. However, for a while, I imagine my posts will have to be a little more infrequent, and therefore must beg of you some patience with me. But please don’t give up on Movie Musings. As soon as Elaine and I are settled in our new home, and things begin to calm down a bit, I promise you the return of my weekly postings.

And now for a little business at hand. I am creating an emailing list for Movie Musings to inform my readers of new posts and other periodic updates. Until now, I have been leaving messages on Facebook and relied on Elaine to email the link to a few of my non-Facebook-frequenters. With the amount of news feed on Facebook, however, this is no longer a reliable method for new posting announcements. So please send me your email address (paulbwilder@gmail.com) so that I can add you to the list. After this week, I will no longer be using Facebook to post Movie Musings updates. You will receive the link to the new post via email.

And so, until next time, here is my hope that we all find our Shangri-La. Good night.