Goodness gracious! How remiss I've been 

about writing in this journal, and I've had so many nice things to write about -- doing inspiring 

"silver sneaker" classes at the Y, 

having coffee with a dear friend, 

reading A Tale of Two Cities with my sweetheart, writing a poem every day, 

continuing to edit and organize 

my many binders of poems and stories and novels, watching the Red Sox move toward the playoffs, watching the Patriots bounce back on Sunday, 

and so on and so on. 

Talk about a lucky dude!