The comeback plan

Blog news:

My health conditions continue to improve, slowly, over time. I’m getting more energy back as the days and weeks progress, and I am at least at an every-other-day-is-not-so-bad point right now. I can function for a day, and then rest for a day.

I would like to get back to full-time blogging by the start of the 2026 NHL Draft on June 26th and 27th, to try to carry through the Red Wings’ summer development camp and free agency, and then…

I hope to use the “quieter” (this is a relative term) summer months to build up endurance energy-wise to figure out how much I’m going to be able to return to every-day blogging come training camp and the exhibition season.

Put bluntly, I have four motivators:

1. I miss blogging like crazy. It’s the only real outlet that I have aside from rendering care to my now 84-year-old aunt, and the blog gives me an identity, it gives me a voice, and it gives me a routine sharing coverage of the team I’ve been following since 1991.
2. We’re at a point where following the team at an advanced level takes so much time that it makes little sense to not share what I’m reading from around the world with an audience. There’s so much Red Wings-related stuff on the internet right now that it’s a job to read and respond to it all, regardless of whether it’s being shared, so if I can have a figurative microphone with which to offer my thoughts and start conversations, that’s a logical place to be for me.
3. Aunt Annie supports what I want to do, regardless of whether that’s being an every-day blogger or an every-couple-of-days opinion-sharing blogger (which may end up being what I do if the energy level never really returns to near-normal). Aunt Annie and my therapist alike know that this blog is good for my mental health, and as someone who deals with chronic mental illnesses, it’s not just a creative outlet or a, “Hell, might as well share the information that I’m reading” outlet–it facilitates my mental health.
4. Finally, it’s too expensive to be a Red Wings fan following every source that I’ve subscribed to without doing this to at least “break even” money-wise. I can’t afford my subscriptions to MLive, the Free Press, the Detroit News, Detroit Hockey Now, The Athletic, ESPN, etc. etc. without your help, because I’m making minimum wage as a State of Michigan-employed caregiver for Aunt Annie, so it’s imperative that I provide coverage that’s worth both your time and some level of fiscal support.

As of June 4th, that’s where I’m at in terms of hoping and praying for and working toward a return to the blog. I hope that you’ll continue following as I make my way back behind the laptop over the course of the next month.