Starting To Look Back

I found myself chatting with an old friend today whom I haven't really talked to in a long time. We were good friends once, lost track and thanks to one of those social networking sites have been able to catch up again. It was during this conversation that I had mentioned reading his wife's blog about losing her mother and that I knew what it was like, since I had lost my Dad in 2001. I mentioned that in my renewed loved for writing I hadn't "gone there yet", and it was then that he told me that when I'm ready I might find that it's my best stuff yet. As the night as progressed I find myself looking back on that year and how hard it all was and I realize that he just might be right. Writing about what happened to me and what I went through during that time might be good for me, I might find some deep writing that I didn't know I had, I might also help somebody else.

So, I am going to start looking back on those times and start to dig them up again. As hard as it might be, the events of that year alone could fill a book for me. In just that one year I laid a friend to rest, I met my now husband, I watched the world change, I lost my Dad and I realized that my sister and I will never be close again.

I hope that I do my memories justice with my writing, and I think that he's right when he told me that I just might find some of my best work yet.

We'll see...