Update

Good Morning:

This is my first post for 2014.  So a belated Happy New Year to those reading this blog.

My absence is due to my focusing on a book project which has turned out to be huge.  It is over 500 pages and keeps changing its shape, morphing into configurations I hadn't intended, and in general soaking up my attention and time.  Not that I mind.  But it is one of those projects that you thought would be straightforward, and then suddenly becomes immensely complex.

But focus seems to have returned and I hope to post more regularly here at Shaping Words in the near future.

Thanks, everyone, for your patience.

Best wishes,

Jim