When I started my blog, I wanted to show all sides of my personality. So, it will be something funny or profound for you, my dear reader. No in-between. How about that for a kick in the pants. Especially if you are discovering this blog after hundreds are written. You are in for quite a ride.

The title of this blog is no error. I intentionally named it “-.” Some may have figured this out, some may have known from the beginning, and others are still unsure. Let me go back a bit, so this all makes sense, and to allow my creative flourish that makes this blog so popular.*

*Future projection only

My family went through a double tragedy in the first week of April 2022. In less than one week, we lost the youngest and the oldest person our family has lost in my lifetime. We spent the second week of April with viewings and funerals, one expected, one we couldn’t have foreseen 3 minutes before her life was taken. 75 years separated the two agewise. One was the first of her generation to be lost, and the other was the last member of her generation. Both taught me so much about myself, about how you never know what life has in store for us. My grandmother, affectionately known as Granny, did not have an easy life, but she still made it her own. She was a tough broad who I loved to brag about how she loved to craft, smoke cigarettes, and watch sports, especially baseball, and football, but she also enjoyed watching golf. She was a role model, and I took a lot of wisdom from her and her life.

My niece, who was just 16 when her life ended, was the victim of modern times and an improperly placed stop sign. The life lesson I learned from her was to no longer fear death. It will happen to all of us; most of us have no idea when it will happen, so just enjoy the ride because we don’t know how short it will be. We all have a mark to make on this world and an unknown time to make that mark. As I find myself concentrating more and more on my writing, my goal is twofold. In those final moments, I don’t want to regret the dreams I never pursued, and I want to make sure I did something with the life that some didn’t experience, and others didn’t enjoy.