Aaaand, yeah....

It has been nine days since I published my last post.

I started drafting one five days ago, and found myself stuck.  I wasn't ready to move on with Stephen's story.  It was getting too heavy, too quickly.  My intentions here are not just to dredge up the past and inundate anyone who stopped by to check in and do some light reading with a personal nightmare.

I'm also questioning my (as of this writing, nonexistent) readers' opinions of this blog.  Despite my intention to relate a character-forming event in my life, it's certain that someone will assume that I'm shamelessly rehashing it all for the attention it brings.  I'm sure, in large part, that's the reason I still haven't publicized "Buzz for Bubbers" a month since its inception, and only two months before its target culmination.

So -- let's start with an acknowledgement.  In writing this blog, I'm forced to straddle some very fine lines -- the lines between sentiment and melodrama, and between telling touching stories and those that are abjectly depressing.

I had hoped to balance out the negative with some seemingly superficial blather of personal and/or cultural significance, stuff that really doesn't matter in a life-or-death perspective.  However, I'm having a really hard time transitioning from the heavy to the light.  Forgive me if my point of focus jumps around from one day to the next.  As it will.  Stick it out, and it'll all tie together tidily in the end.

So, next post, "superficial" stuff.  The post after that, a little more background.  And then...
we're going live!






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