It has been a year since I launched my Steemit account as the real me: 
Hive account@jayna. Due to a little... uh, mishap with my Steemit passwords, I've been off the platform for about five days. I've launched an account recovery process, and I have no idea how long that will take.
Meanwhile, I'd like to introduce my sidekick self, 
Hive account@jaynas-minime. Jayna's Minime is a virtual cardboard cutout of myself. She will be my stand-in, my placeholder, until things are set to rights. Of course this brings up lots of questions, like what if Hive account@jaynas-minime is more popular than Hive account@jayna? I kid! I kid!
Just back from the coolest meetup ever
Today I'm back in Minneapolis, but I just spent the last three days hanging out with some fellow Steemians from The Writers' Block. This picture was taken yesterday in a wildlife refuge in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park where we saw bears, a coyote, deer, and lots of wild turkeys.
Pictured from left to right, are 
Hive account@gmuxx (who traveled all the way from the UK for this experience), our fabulous hostess 
Hive account@rhondak, 
Hive account@sircork, moi, 
Hive account@sk43, 
Hive account@enginewitty, and 
Hive account@catherine813. Also on this trip I got to meet 
Hive account@jonknight, 
Hive account@trishlarimer, 
Hive account@anarcho-andrei, 
Hive account@ladymaharet and 
Hive account@instructor2121. All amazing people. We had fun, we laughed, we had an official meeting with people calling in from all over the world, and we saw bears. Good times.
This really incredible trip, which included a visit to @TARC -- Hive account@rhondak's amazing animal shelter in Tazewell County, Tennessee, would never have happened without Steemit. It's a testimony to the great things that can happen when like-minded people come together.
What to do now?
After a year on Steemit, posting, upvoting and commenting have become like breathing to me. Not being able to do so was like holding my breath. I was turning blue. It's good to be back, even if it means a brief identity crisis.
I could pout that my doppelgänger has no VP, that my real account is growing stale, and that people who have mentioned me in my Hive account@jayna posts are hearing only radio silence. Instead, I feel blessed and thankful. I am back up and running and can at least explain to my Steemit peeps why I went dark for a few days. And I can breathe again!
I'd like to extend a huge thank you to Hive account@instructor2121 for helping me to get set up with a backup account. Thanks so much! You rock!
Thanks also to 
Hive account@negativer and 
Hive account@anikekirsten who supported my #fiftywords challenge with comments to the participants over the past week. You guys are so great!
