This announcement relates to changes in my service and schedule, which will take effect immediately following my return from holiday break on January 4, 2010.  Specifically, I will be cutting back on my workload by about half of what it is currently.

I will not go into great detail on the personal circumstances behind these changes, except to say that my youngest child has exhibited  developmental delays that have become a concern for us and her pediatrician.  Her initial screening seems to point toward a spectrum of autism, though it is not conclusive and her full diagnosis will not be made until the end of January.  As a minimum, we know at this point that she requires speech therapy and a greater amount of one-on-one interaction to encourage interpersonal relationships & communication.

Because my greatest priority at this point is focusing on whatever is needed to improve her development, I have decided that it would be best for me to temporarily cut back my Veda Designs workload so I can spend more time with her.  Our hope is that an early and aggressive intervention will give her the greatest chance of catching up developmentally so she can still start preschool on schedule next fall.

I have outlined below in more detail on the specifics of these changes. Because I will be working about half of what I do currently, some of these changes require adopting more strict policies relating to client updates and new projects than what I’m entirely comfortable with.   I want to apologize in advance for whatever inconvenience these changes cause.  Cutting back on my business was a difficult decision to make and not one I’ve made lightly.

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I’ve been meaning to blow the dust off this blog for months.  Like most every other social networking tool I’ve attempted to utilize in the past, my active participation tends to run in spurts. However, with the holidays coming up and some schedule changes planned for my business after the new year, I decided it was time to resurrect the blog so it can be used once more for in-depth client updates.  My twitter account has been allocated for this purpose as well, but the text length restriction isn’t really practical for certain types of news and updates.

So there is really no purpose to this entry except to say that the blog is active and live again.  As mentioned briefly above, there will be some changes to my service after the new year, which I’ll expand on in a future post.