About a year ago, when I was trying to avoid my now-completed thesis, I felt a tugging that I needed to begin writing again in earnest. I set a few goals for myself at the end of December: to write a page a day, to explore a more public audience like blogging, and to read more consistently and widely.

As I looked back through my files, I saw that I wrote my page each day on December 30 and 31^st, and then my writing picks up on the 5th of January with thoughts on Dickens’ Great Expectations and a weird dream about ruining a Bieber concert venue and being plotted against. I managed to miss the first four days of the year and combine Dickens and Bieber in one day’s writing, which pretty much sums up why I am chronically mad as a hatter.

I didn’t write a page a day in January or any other month, but I wrote more than I likely would have otherwise. I did read consistently and widely, and I did begin a blog, which you all have been so graciously visiting. Thank you all so much for reading, for commenting, for laughing and crying with me as I ramble.

We are all works in progress, thank goodness. If you set goals or resolutions this year, blow it on the first day and let go of perfectionism.  Then take a small step forward. Forgive the missed days, and just keep pressing on.

Lemonade Rambles is about the bumblings of a messy life—how God redeems the sour and tart with the sugar of His grace. Taste and see that the Lord is good. Praying that you are quenched by the unexpected lemonade of life as you ramble along in 2012.