hello again

yes, I've done this before.  In the olden days we called it 'xanga'.  I had that obnoxious one-hit-wonder-esque Green Day song playing on my xanga and somehow felt like that combined with unrestrained black eyeliner gave me some sort of hipster street cred or something.  Whatever. Well, I'm back after a 3 year hiatus or so.  I still don't have street cred.  But I've been assisting with the resettlement of refugees for a year now and continue to learn so much from them.  And from other things, really, and I really want to make sure I don't forget anything.  It is what it is.  Those are my opening remarks.