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03/02/2005: "Settling In"

Many of you have asked over the last couple of months why I wasn’t writing anymore. I was writing but I was not blogging. Okay, well sort of. I was writing lists. List after list of things I had to get done to pull off a complicated move. A move that would put two generations of my family under the same roof and allow us to take better care of each other and make more efficient use of whatever energy we have. The move is complete and we are settling in to our new digs and developing some routines. After a month of packing and unpacking two households and consolidating them into one, I am ready to tackle the problems of the world again on this page.

Can you look at the pictures on TV of the Lebanese people demonstrating against their pro Syrian government and hearing that the government has resigned and not get a big Cheshire cat grin on your face? Can you hear that Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak is making overtures to open up their political system to multiple political parties and not think that something very big is unfolding before our eyes in the Middle East? Purple finger power is spreading.

The brave Iraqis held a successful election and now everybody wants one in the Middle East. Purple finger envy fans the flames of freedom and GWB had the guts to strike the match to begin with and the US Military had the might to pull it off. God bless all of you. While I am sure there will be many bumps in this road, the dominos are starting to fall just as predicted.

….it must suck to be a democrat these days.