{"id":8035,"date":"2004-01-28T16:58:03","date_gmt":"2004-01-28T16:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2004\/01\/blogs_and_things.html"},"modified":"2004-01-28T16:58:03","modified_gmt":"2004-01-28T16:58:03","slug":"blogs_and_things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/01\/blogs_and_things.html","title":{"rendered":"Blogs and Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to tell you that I&#8217;m going to shift the direction of this blog, just slightly.<\/p>\n<p>The thing is that I have a lot of work to do in the next five months, work that just got some more work piled on top of it.<\/p>\n<p>I have a book due in June, then there&#8217;s a book series for which I am serving as general editor that will be formally introduced in late spring that requires much ongoing work, I&#8217;m anticipating the manuscript for my book on prayer, coming out from Loyola in the fall, to be coming my way some time soon for content, then copy editing, I have another project for OSV that I&#8217;ve agreed to do that needs to be done fairly quickly, and then I&#8217;ve agreed to write a book in the next two weeks that will come out, God willing in late April.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, you heard that right. Gotta write a book over the next two weeks. (About 80 manuscript pages. I can do it, yes I can!). <\/p>\n<p>I knew about most of this before Christmas, and you know, from that standpoint, everything looks pretty rosy. Different year, a vast expanse of months before you&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>But now &#8211; it&#8217;s almost February. Ack.<\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;m going to try to force myself to shift this from being such a news blog (which is hard because I truly am a news junkie) to being more of a entry-a-day reflection blog. Now that doesn&#8217;t mean y&#8217;all can&#8217;t still send me links. Please do, and when good ones come along, I&#8217;ll post them. But I&#8217;m not going to be doing so much web-meandering. I just can&#8217;t. <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see how long this lasts, eh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to tell you that I&#8217;m going to shift the direction of this blog, just slightly. 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