Well, we’re just over the one quarter mark for the year. There’s a feeling that 2021 still hasn’t quite shown its true colours. Vaccines are out and seem to be making a big difference – at least to those folks who are able to receive them. There’s a sense that a return to normality is imminent, but still not quite there yet. And anyway, is normality really what we want to get back to, or can we aim a little higher than that.

I feel like I’m having one of those days.

It happens every now and then. I’m doing the things I regularly do. I’m reading the papers and looking at stuff on the internet. I’m thinking about stories I’m yet to write. I’m also thinking about stories I’ve already written and wondering what I can do to get publishers interested in them. And I’m thinking about stories I’ve actually gotten published, and wondering how I can get more people to buy them.

Well, it had to happen. The world had to move on. After a year of discord and disconnect (and sadly, much sickness and death as well), we seem to be starting to get the better of Covid 19 and starting to see a way back to something resembling normal life.

And for me, something that resembles a normal life is a change to the arrangement of working from home.

Last week, I posted about how I’ve been reading a biography of Jim Henson (by the same author who wrote a biography of Dr Seuss), and the inspiration I’ve gained from it.

Well, I thought I would continue on that theme today. Because there was something else I learned from that book. Something that was a little unexpected.

A few weeks ago, I posted about how I was reading a biography of Dr Seuss, and how inspiring I was finding it. After finishing this, I was pleased to discover the author of this book also wrote a bio of another of my cultural heroes, Jim Henson. And even more pleased to discover there was a copy at a local library. So for the last few weeks, I’ve been reading all about Jim Henson and the evolution of the Muppets.