Although we've never really been gone.
Mollie moved to Japan to attend college and I'm working full time in a surgeon's office. Carolyn is still here too, she's reading, painting and singing badly at me on the phone.
And we still have this blog.
We're not really overly romance readers/writers anymore. Although we both still love the genre it takes a lot more to engage us.I'm currently reading more non-fiction and Carolyn is well, she reads everything but if it doesn't engage her quickly she's on to the next.
So we've been talking about the blog and have agreed that even when we end up silent for years, it's still a form of home for us. And personally, I've been feeling a desire to write again. Nothing major. Nothing fictional. Maybe just a wish to shout into the void and feel heard.
And for the sake of disclosure I do want to mention that I've started therapy because I'm having serious displacement with empty nest syndrome. Mollie is thriving in Japan and I've never been prouder but I'm lonely and sad and unsure of my place in this world.
So that's where I'm at. Politics will be discussed. Romance novels, as well as vaginas, menopause, anger and sorrow will be discussed.
When Carolyn and I first met, her husband John was driving a big truck, she was working as a medical biller, Mollie was 4 years old, I liked sex and we were devoted fans of Carlos Marin. Carolyn lost John to lung cancer, she retired, she prefers to look at brawny blonds. Mollie is in college, sex is a distant memory, and well, I like K-Pop and K-Pop boys.
Everything changes.
But we always have this blog to come home to.
Very good post, Lori.
ReplyDeleteIsn't it amazing all the changes we've been through since ...when? 2002? 2004? And we have weathered it all with a high level of tolerance and a lot of love.
I hope to contribute more this time. I sort of feel like I've come out of a long, dark tunnel, not black but sort of a ragged gray. But that's just tonight and tomorrow I may sleep all day. Lol. Still, I think getting involved with this blog again will be good for me.
Love the new background. Love it all except the header. ;-)
It's you and me babe, all the way.
Welcome back (although you weren't really gone) ladies! Missed ya heaps. Big hugs to you both and hope you can find what makes you happy. ♥♥
ReplyDeleteOK, now I love the header! Thanks, Lea. Mwah!
ReplyDeleteBack at ya lovely lady x And if you know what you're after, I can try a new header for you. I jsut got my photoshop back so... experimenting lol. Mwah!
DeleteI am glad to "see" you both here.
ReplyDeleteI am also so, so glad you are going to therapy and getting help; depression and other forms of mental health issues LIE, LIE so convincingly! Sending hugs to you both.