tao1776

The blogger community once poured out opinion and shared triumph and tragedy. Where we once opened the windows of our lives to one another, we watched as Google Blogger began to die a slow death. Wordpress, Facebook. The community pulled up stakes and moved elsewhere or gave up their blog posts altogether. There was once twenty five or thirty of us who hung out discussing everything under the sun. A veritable mish-mash of people sharing their eclectic lives and experiences. I used to hope for a BBQ believing that a get together was in order. What a great group of people to have assembled all in one place. I still maintain contact with four or five on Facebook. Some disappeared altogether. As the U.S prepared to enter Iraq to put an end to WMD's, one blogger was preparing to leave for basic training. She left for basic and later wrote a few quick updates. The she disappeared and her blog was soon no more. I wonder about her. Another was a veteran of the first Iraq wa...

I've made a multitude of concessions trying to keep the peace, duck the fire and make my marriage work. When divorce began it's scythe-like swing, the burn of anger felt like a ton of bricks on my chest and had me also tasting blood. In wisdom and understanding a friend said, "The best revenge you can have is to go and live your life well."