Giving the Best of Ourselves to Everyone Else ... and the Worst to Those we Love the Most ....

This is either a subject people know about and understand or they don't ... at least to start with ... but maybe those that don't will understand ... at least a little ... after reading this ....

My father was an amazing citizen ... he volunteered as an EMT ... he was on the Search and Rescue Team ... he was even a State Coordinator for the Search and Rescue Team ... he was social, outgoing and even charming to most of the world ... but at home he was reclusive and closed off ... he gave the best of himself to everyone outside of his family ...

I have had friends have experience with this lately ... and I have experienced it myself ... someone is sweet and charming and funny with the rest of the world ... they maintain their temper ... but then when they are around the people that are "closest" to them ... the people that care about them the most ... they turn into almost an entirely different person ...

I've seen touchy-feely people that out in public are touching and hugging everyone around ... go home and not touch their spouse/partner for hours even days after ... I've known people

I'm back ... An Update on Life ...

So it's been a while ... a long while ... and the reasons for that are mostly good ...

Okay ... so my life hasn't completely turned around ... but there is more of a light at the end of the tunnel than there was before ... and I haven't been writing because I have been genuinely busy ...

Now some of my fellow writers will probably find it funny that I have an entire list of blog titles that I put down so I could go back and write the blogs later ... only now