Thanks to the WAYBACK MACHINE (Internet Archive), I spent some time this morning revisiting archived Blog posts that I made way back during the year 2008.
Back then, I was a 37-year old father and still struggling in my relationship of my first marriage. Our children were young. My daughter Rachel was 12 and my son Mitch was 8. My "day job" consisted of working as a graphic designer and adjunct art instructor at Springfield College - Benedictine University. A few years earlier, I had been selected to be a church elder at our Missouri Synod Lutheran Church and I wasn't even in there for the meeting and vote. I was a brown belt in Yoshukai Karate studying and practicing at dojos in both Springfield and Lincoln, Illinois getting ready for my black belt test. I was also playing bass guitar with two fellow black belts in a bar band called THE RAMBLIN' ELK.
That summer, we took a family vacation to California to go to Disneyland. I also revisited my old home in Fresno, California. I attended a comic book convention that year and also saw The Police reunited in concert. Just two years earlier, Shooting Star Comics, LLC had disbanded and our independent comic book company had broken up. My parents came up for a visit in Illinois and we made one trip to see them in Memphis. I was still trying to break into comics, but karate and playing in a bar band was taking priority in my life. It was during this year that I faced the realization that I was NOT going to work full-time in comics (and get that coveted gig writing GREEN ARROW). It was a dream that I had to face that was NOT going to happen for me.
I found some old blog posts on the Internet Archive that I had previously deleted after my separation and divorce. It was an emotionally tough time for me, but after a decade, I have undergone some emotional healing. Upon finding these old blog posts, I decided to restore them to this blog here in the year 2025 even if there is mention of my ex-wife Roxie (She is a wonderful mother to our children and I only wish the best for her in life).
So much has changed in my life since then (and I have also remarried a second time to a wonderful woman from Texas named Jennifer), but I want to preserve this as a record of my life. In the future, I intend to go back to other years of my life and see if I can restore old blog entries and things that I wrote. Some may be painful due to the separation and divorce in 2012-2013 with my ex-wife Roxie and those VERY difficult years that followed afterwards, but I am going to see what I can preserve and restore.
I didn't blog too often, but I did blog over the years. 2008 had some interesting posts (including a couple of local newspaper interviews with me). I have restored the important blogs from that year. Not everything was restored as a few didn't need to be, but if you look, you will now find them in the archive of this blog.
In the future, I intend to go back and restore older deleted blog entries that I can dig up from previous years that I thought were deleted forever.
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