Hi. As the title says, it's been a while. Close to two years, in fact. My life has changed considerably in the intervening period, including finishing my graduate program, a healthy dose of soul-searching, a cross-country move, and nearly eighteen months without writing. Well, I wrote, but I didn't really write, if you take my meaning.

I'm not sure if anyone still checks this space, but if they do, I promise that they will be rewarded in the foreseeable future. I've been working very hard lately to get back in the habit of putting my thoughts into words, and I expect to be doing so again here at Organic Matter pretty soon. I'm planning a proper post to ring in the new era of content here, but that's probably still a few weeks off at best, and whimsy suggested that I get something new at the top of the page so that people know it's still active.

There will also be some changes to the site itself. I have a personal blog in addition to OM - the address of which I don't intend to post here - and I'm hoping to merge the two. I'm not sure yet what the result will look like, but I'd like to incorporate a some of the personal things that I write about there into what I do here, while still keeping the content focused on environmental issues. All of the old content will stay here, with the exception of the user blogs, which we're going to disable. Despite the efforts of a few people, that feature never did much for the site, and I hope to simplify things overall.

Anyway, that's the plan. It might take a couple months to really get going, depending on a number of extraneous factors related to my employment and living situation, but it'll happen. Stay tuned.