Comeback kid

Can a girl get a comeback?

I interrupt this blog hiatus to make a comeback.

I’m back from my long blog “hiatus,” which better resembled a blog death–albeit one never officially pronounced was dead, which leads me to wonder: if a blog dies in this vast Internet forest and no one hears it, is it truly dead? 

I am not the only one to ambitiously start a blog, throw all my creative energy into it and then abandon it for a spell. The question is can it be resurrected? Here’s hoping. 

I think I rang that death knell for any blog when I wrote an ever-so-ambitiously titled post, “Heard y’all missed me, well I’m back,” heralding tales from my adventurous trip to Chennai, India, resolutely declaring my return.

And then I never returned…

Some of you may remember this, but more of you may not really care that much about where I went at all. I’ll tell you all what happened anyway.

Postcards from Mahabalipuram

It wasn’t that I didn’t make it to India, I did, and it was an amazing adventure. It’s just that I had this full time writing job sucking the life out of me and, each evening, when I got back from work, there simply wasn’t a word left in me.

Most writers aren’t hard-pressed for words, but I was indeed wrung out them daily. At the close of each day, I had little energy, but to elicit a low groan, redolent of writing on the daily about “tucking into” the most expensive hamburger in the world and pirouetting around words not fit to print in the most abstract way.

Behold the world’s most expensive hamburger. Photo Credit: Groupon

It wasn’t easy, but I am aware that there are much harder jobs in the world than eating and writing about where one may sample the most expensive hamburger in the world — make mine a veggie burger, please — and drinking too many and then having to write ambiguously about elixirs we all know and love but cannot mention by name. It was a pretty good gig indeed, until it wasn’t any longer.

But that’s a story for another post. Sometime in the distant future when I am able to expound upon how the other half drinks and dines in this adult Disneyland, better known as the UAE.

So, this brings me to the future. Back when I started Lizzy of Arabia, it was a blog chronicling my journey acquainting myself with the city of Abu Dhabi. Said job, for all its shortcomings, gave me an introduction like no other to this land; I know it, and I know it well.

This blog will now be dedicated to further discovery of the city: things new and things old, things silly and things serious and good eats and even better drinks.

I will share them in the style that some of you came to know and hopefully like in the past. Let me know what you want me to write about. I am an open to suggestions. After one months’ break from F/T writing, I am ready, and my words are replenished. 

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