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PROGRAMMING NOTE from the Author and Archivist


So obviously I just stopped blogging on this platform. I'll get back to it eventually. Or not. I'm taking a break from all social media. It seemed necessary for my mental health.

The last few years have been busy and … challenging:

- 2015 Happened.
- 2016 Let's call it The Lost Year. (Obviously words failed me.)
- 2017 about broke me. Literally. Mentally.
- 2018 was ridiculous, proving 2017 was just a warm up. (Good thing I was already broken so it couldn't hurt as much.#2018TrashCanFire I thought things were going okay, but maybe not?)

- 2019 was such a blur. I know there were highlights, but then stuff happened and carried into the next year...

- And then in March#2020 really took a turn. Who can even categorize 2020? Do we dare?


I kinda want a do-over of some of the last few years. But life doesn’t work that way.


So for now, I'm hunkering down. Regrouping. Trying to stay safe and sort some stuff out.


Stay safe everyone. Stay well.

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Thursday, April 9, 2009

Retroblog April 9, 1982

Today is Friday April 9th 1982 Time 3:23 pm

I must tell you about Albert He is so cute. I meet him in 3rd trird grade. He was chaseing me around the play-ground. The next year he and I were on the swing. I told him he had chased me in 3rd grade. He said He liked me since then we have had fights and quarrells. But I still like him

Ah, first crushes. Innocent times. Sadly, Albert and I didn't get beyond the walking home stage. We were both way too young and too shy. Plus, I was a smart kid and he was a cool kid, so it wasn't destined to be anyway.

To this day, however, whenever I'm in the old neighborhood and see his childhood home, it's always "Albert's house" in my mind. Albert moved away a few years later, and I don't know what happened to him. I suppose I could run an Internet search, but it's more wonderful to think of those playground days with a glow of nostaglia. Not knowing is much better ...

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