Returning

At first I just needed a little break.

And then I thought I might be done because the longer I was away from my computer the harder it was to come back.  Or maybe the easier it was to stay away.  I don't know which, but maybe that's a sign, I thought.

Then I got some other signs.

Like, I read John Adam's letter to his son encouraging him to keep a diary (and there is a really great quote there but I loaned the book to my brother-in-law) but basically he said without recording them, the moments of his son's life would surely be forgotten, even by himself.

And then my sister-in-law told me I wasn't done.  And she is a force to be reckoned with.

And then my mother complained.  And you know how I feel about my mother.

And then I watched Laura Bush on Oprah, and her daughters' response to her recent book.  When they said that reading her book allowed them to really know their mother, to see life from her perspective for the first time, something sounded inside of me...

I am not done.