There’s something about safety that I have always felt uneasy about. “Staying safe,” “playing safe,” “safe house.” It screams boredom, dull, passionless life or literally, insane.

This move back to the states for me is reclaiming my risk-taking. I’m not talking jumping off bridges or spitting in the eye of a Mexican policeman risk-taking, I’m talking becoming artistically relevant. I’m saying pushing past my writing limit. Daring to experiment with stories I have never considered or thought possible – praying I can be stretched to such an extent.

I just re-read a few of my pieces from college that I wrote and performed and they are shocking. As in, how complacent have I become? My writing before was raw and certainly lacking in eloquence, but it touched on topics that went straight to the core, didn’t hold back and wasn’t afraid. What is it about becoming older that drips in mediocrity and lacks audacity? I don’t want to become complacent.

So, why am I writing this to the world? My blog will follow my move back to the states, but once I get settled, my goal is touch nerves once again, to provoke conversation and debate and to unearth topics that aren’t easy to read but that need to be discussed. Its a big aim, but I believe I need it. I need to get back in touch with that side of me. Whether or not the same readers will be attracted to my new blog will remain to be seen, but I invite you to try it out. I’d love to hear what you have to say. I can’t promise to know what I will be writing about or where the inspiration will come from, but I do vow to keep it interesting. Just give me a month to get in the groove.

I can’t promise brilliance, but I can promise interesting.

The Lady who Lunches as a theme is retiring in its original form. That lady isn’t really me, never truly was. She’s a facade I created so I could relish not working, living in a country on a temporary tourist visa unable to truly have a life. It was fun for a second, but let’s face it, I’m a middle class workaholic who needs to feel validated in my life and that life lunching in England simply wasn’t cutting it.

Now, when I write that I am the Lady Who Lunches, it’s for business meetings, lunches with best friends and as a symbol for working and enjoying the simple yet luxurious things in life.

I can’t wait.

Stay tuned…