It’s been a while. I apologize for that. I’d like to promise it won’t happen again, but I can’t make guarantees. Life gets busy. Nevertheless, I like to think we have the type of relationship that we can pick up right where we left off months or years ago, as if we never left. That sort of connection that remains strong even in times of communication dry spells. Basically that we’re not too co-dependent. No one likes a clinger.
Anyway, I did some things while I was gone. Some of them are not related to this blog so much, but one really big one is totally related…the book. You didn’t just think I was being lazy all that time, did you? Or that I had dropped this silly Bert Betterman mess and all of his baggage? No way!
About the book…it’s definitely an extension of the blog. In fact, it includes some blog material, “digitally-remastered,” if you will, and some new content. It’s a little more organized as my INFJ self spun on all these musings of my past trying to always see the bigger picture. What does it all mean? What do we do with it? That’s what I hope the book helps to do.
It’s called Bert Betterman’s Garden of Rabbit Holes, by the way, because that’s really what this blog is, a big collection of rabbit holes of varying depths I’ve fallen down over the years, the contents of which I decided, for better or worse (obviously better, though) to share with you. If you enjoyed the blog posts, the book ought to be even more enjoyable and fulfilling. At least I felt better after writing it anyway.
You can find it on Amazon (click here) and read it on your Kindle or whatever electronic device you utilize for ebooks.
Another big part of what this blog became for me over the years was the illustrations and imagery, my cheesy and very amateur clip art stuff. I wanted to make that much better for the book, so the graphics I thought stunk like malodorous gas were entrusted to Yunus Priadi to massively improve upon. Like the cover art here:
Dude is way more talented than I.
I also have some other people I wanted to thank here, people that gave me certain amounts of inspiration and advice along the way to keep me going and make this possible. Really that amounts to everyone, ever, but notably: Alina Lindgren, Matt Campbell, Kim Garin, Jami Kitchel, Nicole Larsen, Kevin Duenow, and Brent Aronsen. And, of course, Sarah Eckstat.
So yeah, there you go. Nice to talk to you again, hope you’ll consider checking out the book, and we’ll be in touch one way or another.
Peace.