You may have noticed, hypothetical audience, that I don’t really discuss what’s going on in the news while bouncing between topics as wide-ranged as the origins of cooking and wanting to be left alone on the bus so I can read. This is a deliberate move on my part, and one that will almost certainly continue, at least in the entries of this blog.

I used to extensively follow the news, trying to stay informed and educated on what was going on in the world. As mentioned before, I am very pro-education. Of course, as you’re no doubt aware, the last couple of decades have been… ‘turbulent’ in a lot of ways. So the news often dominating the headlines has often been bleak or upsetting, and quite often both. You’ll probably have guessed, from some of my entries, that I’m a fairly depressive person, so the steady stream of bad news had a pretty hefty impact on my mood in the downward direction over time.

So I decided to take a break from actively keeping up with the news, and it did wonders for my mood, but I’m starting to realize that I’ve overcorrected a bit on this topic. Recently, several major news stories have taken me by surprise, so I’m starting to re-evaluate my position which, I will admit, may have accelerated into active avoidance of the news.

Still, that probably won’t impact what I write about here, since I really do enjoy having a space where I can just ramble on about whatever has caught my interest.