I’m not exactly in the best of moods lately, but your story has gathered a couple of fans already so I guess I owe them an update about you. I saw you again last week about a little past 8. Your long hair has been freed from its pony (I believe I failed to mention…

I picked up this phrase, “stubborn optimist”, from my meeting with McCann. I liked it. I found the right phrase that would best describe how I am even when life has beaten me to a pulp. Until someone tried to rain on my parade…in vain. Hahaha to you, my friend! ME (posted as my YM…

I’m not sure, but I think I’m between sleep and consciousness… wherever that may be. I know that I am lying on my right side, my favorite sleeping position. I am hugging my bolster, with an extra pillow snuggled against my back. My feet are resting on top of my small Mickey Mouse pillow. Yes,…

I stared at the tea candle I was holding. I thought of my troubled family and friends. The flickering light in my hand seemed not enough to save them from misery, but when I raised my head and saw the rest of the congregation holding their bigger candles, I felt small but important. Before going…

I thought I saw the last of you last week. Then there you were again the other night… Well, at least I proved to a dear friend that you were not a “snuffalapagus”…a figment of my imagination. She saw you, too, and she thinks you’re cute. Mind you, her vision is 325/325 (says she’s not…