By way of introduction...

So things change.

It's a maxim that is overused so much that it has very nearly lost all of its meaning, power and implication.

For the record, my name is Ryan Paulsen. I am 27 years old, coming up on 5 years married, and a brand new father with a meagre six months' experience. I have lived in London (1981-82), Montreal (1982-84), Timmins (1984-95), Oakville (1995-2001), Peterborough (2001-05), Cheongju (2005-07) and Toronto (2007-09) so far.

The idea of this blog has been sparked by the recent news that my wife Rebecca,


my son Thomas,

and I are going to be moving to Pembroke, Ontario in the next few weeks.

Since all the available signs point to the fact that for the foreseeable future I will be occupying the role of stay-at-home dad, I foolishly assume that I will be able to find at least 15 minutes each day to work on my writing, via this particular blog. If you were directed here by the link on Facebook that I am about to post and were expecting something riveting and life-changing, then I'm not sure what to tell you. Maybe I'll come up with something dramatic and amazing every now and then. Maybe not. Either way, my goal is simply output for the time being. I'll start there and work my way up.

So this is the official entry for right now. It's 2:55am, but I'm up and I'm officially counting this as the entry for what was technically yesterday, June 14th, 2009.