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20 Years Ago

About 10 years ago I started this blog - mostly at the urging of people I was with who would tell me, 'You should write a book!'  I heard about what it takes to write a book and chickened out.  I couldn't handle that, I reasoned.  A blog would suffice.  And it did, and has - for me, if not for others.  Mostly people wanted to hear the story of how I met Sam, it being such a grand adventure and all.  I say that tongue firmly in cheek, because although it does rank up there as truly adventurous, it wasn't exactly all that grand.  I set out to write it all, and it came in bits and pieces, which is relevant to everything about me: I come in bits and pieces - sometimes overly large doses and sometimes small measured ones, if I'm careful to read my audience. And I never did quite finish writing it, which is also very indicative of the kind of person I am: always starting, rarely, if ever, finishing. So to all the pithy little encouraging sayings out there of: Just be y