I took a break, as you can read. A year, in fact. A little because inspiration flew out the window, a lot because I was working a full time job that allowed me to post on another blog, and so the creative juices were flowing elsewhere.

 

But I’m back!

 

I’ve been thinking an awful lot lately about the question, “If you could do anything, professionally, what would it be?”

 

No one has specifically asked me that question lately. They’ve asked me what kind of job I’m looking for, but not about The Dream.

 

So I find I ask myself, what is The Dream? I seem to have lost it somewhere on the self-searching journey.

 

When I was a kid, The Dream was to be a teacher. Then I started babysitting and helping out in the kindergarten classes and that dream turned into The Nightmare.

 

As a teenager I decided I wanted to work in publishing. Went to school for journalism, worked in the industry a little, enjoyed it, but can’t see a prolonged future in it without moving to a big city – which is not part of The Dream.

 

Currently the answer to that first question is To Be Happy.

 

Oh I know, booooooooring! But I started to feel that if I had no expectations, all life could do was exceed them.

 

Niggling throughout these Dreams was the idea of writing, creatively. Having experience in publishing I know – first hand as I’ve done a little bookkeeping in the industry – that creative writing does not pay well. If at all.

 

So I started to ask myself whether The Dream had to make me money and whether it had to be realistic.

 

A friend and I have been half-joking for the past few years about creating children’s books – I’ll write, she’ll illustrate. The idea is based on the fact that we’ve been reading lots of kiddie books lately and a lot of them are terrible.

 

And I’m starting to think we might actually be able to pull it off.

 

I’m not thinking too far ahead. Publishing work is exasperating and expensive. We could, however, self publish. Also expensive, however, we would keep 100% of any profits.

 

Mostly, I think it would be fun and satisfying.

 

I think I’ll start brainstorming!

 

Is it The Dream? I don’t know! But it’s A Dream. Gotta start somewhere.

 

And hey! It got me back on the blog!