I want to change the focus of this blog. I am not sure of the direction it will take, but perhaps we can decide that together (if, of course there are still people following).  I am dismayed at the political landscape in the United States, bothered by the general intellectual discourse, and yet am optimistic. Go figure!

I guess I want to move in the direction I have always been afraid to: unadulterated truth.  Whether it is contained in memoir or fiction an individual’s truth is paramount and is to be respected.  I want to “Be My Own Story” but have spent the bulk of my 60 years living someone else’s. Only in my writing have I lived fully and honestly..  I want to marry the words and the actions. Somehow, I want this blog to be the catalyst, definition? I am not sure yet…Let’s see…