E-gads
The problem, of course, is trying to kick-start a blog after many months of neglect. Where do you start? Do you start by commenting on the huge amount of spam you've been getting? Or maybe start up with the lighter (and more humanitarian) story of how the blog actually put you in touch with a childhood friend you hadn't seen in over 20 years.
A few months back, I got an email from a family friend who contacted me after he'd chanced across this tiny little blog. How's that for serendipity? (I suppose serendipity has another name these days, with the all-out accessibility the web provides, but hey....) It was really great to hear from this family friend/cousin-in-waiting--and somewhat sad to know that so many years had gone by with us not being in touch.
It's always those years-going-by that kills me in the end, I have to admit. I'm a Serb after all, a member of one of the most stuck-in-the-past peoples who still inhabit the earth, and as much as I'd like to say that I can leave the past in the past, hey, who am I kidding? I can do it about 85% of the time, and the rest of the time, I'm toast. This despite the fact that having a kid has catapulted me pretty damn firmly into the here-and-now, where, as most of us know, life happens to be a-happening. But every once in a while, don't you wish you could turn back the clock so that you could go back and fix a few things (otherwise known as major life mistakes, ha). On that melancholy note, it's nice to be back!