Sooooo, I was thinking....

There is something about being from a big city that has a small town vibe.....something that you have to experience first hand to understand. Today I attended a Memorial Service for an old friend who made his transition a few days ago. This man went by many names...New York to some....I simply called him by his gov'ment....Chad. Like many from around my way, Chad was a complicated individual....so much more than met the eye. What I remember most about Chad was his smile and those beautiful eyes. The way that his big arms would engulf you with his hugs, even when he was trying to be gentle and not too rough. I remember talking on the phone with Chad when we were in the 9th grade....laughing and talking about nothing really...back in the day before lives got complicated and all we wanted to do was hang out and have fun. I remember Chad letting his dogs loose to chase my friends down the street, just because. Looking back, he had to have known (intuitively) that the dogs wo...

This song says it all really. It was around this time last year that I last posted on my blog. My mother used to love to print out my blogs and read them, she said that it was too hard to read it on the screen. It was around this time last year that my mother suddenly passed away. This has been quite a year for me...the highs and lows of it all. It's certainly not that I have not had anything to say this year...at times it seems as if I have had too much to say. Due in no small part to the encouragement from friends and family (all of whom have done double duty as therapists) to do so, I am re-entering this world of blogging. I have missed it indeed. Besides, I feel so bad overloading my Facebook friends with my myriad thoughts, Youtube clips and the like. They don't seem to mind, bless their hearts. I never mentioned my dormant blog on FB....but in a Freudian slip this evening, I did so. A very observant HU friend commented on my comment that he did not know that I ha...