There are still mornings that I wake up and reach for her. Sometimes she invades my dreams and for that brief moment I believe that nothing has changed ( Read more... )

I miss my mother today. I miss my family.

Sometimes I find great comfort that my family lives over 11 hours away and then there are days like today when I would give anything to have them next door. This is the first homesickness I've felt in a very long time. It's only been 6 months since I was home but I doubt I will be back until September.

Happy 2008 to everyone. This has been on the hardest years of my life and despite my heartbreak, it has been good, in a challenging sort of way. I hope that the next year brings positive improvements ( Read more... )

When the phone rings and I hear her voice everything in the past disappears. The pain of separation, the absence of her touch, the heartache, the loss, the unending desires for something that is out of reach, it all dissolves with the sound of her laughter, her smile radiating back at me. On Friday I finally start my journey back to her. I'll ( Read more... )

My passport is upstairs with my new vaccination card. My tickets were purchased yesterday. Now all that separates me from her is two months of waiting to board that plane ( Read more... )

She sent her first pictures from Cochabamba today. And now I'm crying at the computer station at the local college. She looks just like I remembered her a month ago. Except she's time zones away and we don't have the luxury of communication. She gets internet access once a week but sometimes she doesn't have time to send a personalized message ( Read more... )

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In a few hours I will brave the Nor'easter to see Chris Pureka in concert at the University of Delaware. It's a little bit of a drive but the tickets are only $3. Her newest cd is out and the old one has been playing on constant repeat since I moved to Maryland. Tomorrow night I will drive to Baltimore to see the production Brokedyke Mountain. ( Read more... )

The weather is cooling on the Bay and I'm ready for change. In about a month I will be without a job and moving back south. The terrapins I work with are barely hatching anymore so I walk around the island mostly daydreaming. I guess I shouldn't complain about getting paid to explore a deserted island on the Chesapeake ( Read more... )

A month ago I moved to Maryland. I went from teaching kids and working in an office to hiking 5+ miles a day and looking for turtle tracks. It's a strange adjustment, mostly concerning the social aspect. Most of the people that I work with are over 45 and are married construction workers. I also live on a small waterman island, so we have a gas ( Read more... )