My website, and blog, recently turned seven years old. The anniversary passed quietly, but not altogether unnoticed.

For the past week I’ve been working hard, behind the scenes, to bring back thecorch.com to it’s former glory, and then some. After wrestling with the purpose of having a blog, what I should and shouldn’t be writing about, and deep theological questions surrounding the meaning of life, I’m back.

Having a blog can be tricky. First of all, it’s a time commitment. Most blogs, according to the statistics, fall into disuse shortly after being created. Others last a bit longer before petering out. Mine was a on-again, off-again affair that was updated so sporadically its readership eventually fell to zero. In most of its previous incarnations, I lacked not necessarily the time, but the motivation: the drive to dedicate time to it. When my close friend Andrew recently launched a new, and innovative blog, he committed from the get-go to post a certain number of times—to commit to writing.

The second thing about a blog is figuring out what to write about, and what not to write about. As a teacher, and a public figure (in that way), I spent a lot of time thinking about my website. Sometimes I went to write something and thought, “Nah, that’s not something I want to share with the whole world.” Other times I didn’t know. Still, I even wondered about writing at all: who cares what I think about films I see, or music I listen to—who’s reading it anyway?

And that is to say that: We’re back in business.

Welcome to the new incarnation of thecorch.com. I’ve solved the first conundrum by deciding to write, and write often, and to commit wholeheartedly to it. And in terms of what I plan to write about I’ve decided, “Who cares!” and that my opinion on films, television, music, books and my mundane commentaries on life might not be interesting to everyone but if you’re reading them, then they’re interesting to you. After all, it’s good writing practice and that’s important too.

So here we go, on our own again. I hope y’all come along, too.