Belated Happy New Year to everyone. 2010. Amazing. I hope it's a good year for you and those you care for.

I haven't made any resolutions this year because as soon as I make them I want to break them. But secretly I hope to enforce what Julia Cameron calls Good Orderly Direction. Applying myself to the tasks and experiences that make up my life - nothing too dramatic - the usual things - not eating or drinking too much (the 80/20 rule is a good one), keeping my accounts in order, staying in touch with family and friends, remembering that I enjoy writing, accepting that sometimes it's tough and sometimes it's just plain boring but writing through those feelings because it's all part of the process. Not beating myself up too much but not being a slacker either. It's all a bit of a tight rope walk, really. Be it life or writing, I feel I need to steer clear of the extremes and keep myself as centred as possible. Which reminds me - yoga - I didn't do enough of it last year. And this snowy weather makes my joints ache. 

I'm hoping to set off for Brussels tomorrow, weather permitting. I'm all packed and full of optimism because it's my sister's birthday and I don't want to miss it. Fingers crossed.

And Where the Truth Lies is getting there. I'm injecting more pace in to the beginning. It's close now. Not quite inches but less than a mile. I can almost see the ribbon.