My blog is four years old today. It's been an amazingly packed four years including my mother's cancer and death, my father's Alzheimer's and death, There, Second Life, the end of my 16 year period of working at Wa He Lut, and many other things, most of which you should be happy I'm not bringing up. My blog has helped me hold together.

I've always kept journals, and in fact found one the other day that had pithy commentary on things going on in my life at that point. It would be nice to look back and see ANY time period that wasn't absolutely fraught and completely stress-filled, however I have never actually had that. Maybe it's in my future or maybe THIS - right now - is as good as it gets.