Happy New Year 2023... The world keeps turning and Life is all about Transitions... staying on your pivot... remembering to stick and move..

Last year was enlightening on many levels. I learned to meet life on life’s terms instead of living in the world of ‘should’. There’s no Fate but what I make. Simple.

As a result of this way of thinking, I currently find myself on the edge of everything, Again! … another country looming, another catastrophic injury to recover from... another Life...

I'm too old for this shit!

Thinking back on how I came to be... the baseball field victory, my Prom of white satin and red roses, my Wedding of fluff and giggles, my political beginnings in Alaska, the steps of the Capitol, Dahab and 9/11, the train in Milan that changed my future, my refuge in Limoges, the dojo in Shinjuku where I lost the family honor, the delightful Starbucks in Seoul, an Ahwa in downtown Cairo with shaei mahaleeb and Umm Kulthum...

Who am I after all this? Do I still want to be Me? Do I even have a choice?

This little Black girl from Chicago dreamed of a woman who would build a world. I woke up the other day and realized: I... AM... Her!

I've given birth while still wearing my armor and wolves scratching at the door; made love in the sea; dined with Kings... And, thankfully, have finally found my Buffer against the Lethal Weapon that is Life.