I'm Back

After an incredibly relaxing month-long hiatus brought on by the closure of HOTELS magazine (and exacerbated, in a good way, by my April nuptials), I'm back to blogging full-time.

My once-popular HOTELS blog, Musings & Miscellany, sadly is no more, lost to the abyss of cyberspace along with the rest of the magazine's online archives. For now, this will be my Web home, and I'll try to make a go of blogging independently. While I will almost certainly be writing for one hotel industry publication or another on a freelance basis—possibly even the soon-to-be relaunched HOTELS, though nothing is yet official—I must emphasize that this blog is unaffiliated with any other publication.

Additionally, in the interest of full disclosure, I am working on a contract basis with Plan A PR & Marketing as director of client communications. I'll be representing hotel technology vendors EZYield.com and Libra OnDemand, and while I'm admittedly somewhat apprehensive about the ethical implications of working PR while also doing editorial writing, I'm confident I can keep the two separate. At the very least, now you know, and you can draw your own conclusions about my impartiality.

Changing gears completely, I mentioned that I'm newly married. Did I also mention I'm now a professional lounge singer? Just kidding... although I did surprise my beautiful bride with my own rendition of Bobby Darin's "More." Take a gander, but please be kind in the comments section!