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Time for revival, renewal, and rediscovery

"Life moves pretty fast", as Ferris Bueller once said, and this blog got left behind as my life jumped, skidded, and warped into days, weeks, months, and years. With so much going on, I admit I had ignored it and then eventually forgot this little space. It's a little over a decade now since I last wrote anything on this blog, and I was only reminded about it when I got an email, saying my Web page was becoming obsolete and had to change settings and code to keep it alive.

Quite interesting though, despite ignoring this blog for over ten years, I was astounded to discover that people were still reading some of my content. Yesterday, for example, my blog had over 100 page views. Last month, it got over 200 page views, and in the past year, there were close to 30,000 page views. These are obviously pretty modest numbers but for content that's over 10 years old, there's something there that some people still find relevant.

The Filipino Nursing Herald blog started out as a coping mechanism for me. It was a bridge to my former life as a journalist and my career as a nurse. When I created this blog, I was transitioning to a new life--uprooting myself not just to a new country, or to a new culture, but more so to a new self identity. My journalism days are but a distant memory now and I've fully transformed into a new me--one that no longer looks at people as potential feature stories but one that looks at people's arms to imagine where a pretty big intravenous line can go (nursing joke)!

So, if you happen to land on this page by accident or if you've been here before and was a little curious of what else is hiding in these pages, let me tell you that I've started to rebuild this blog and bring it up to current times. So much has changed in 10 years--not just around technology and social media, but more importantly, the information laid out in these pages need to be updated.

My hope is that in another ten years or more, I would have written and created something that some people could still appreciate, even after my pen's digital ink has dried.     

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