Hello again...and this week ------

Well, now I am totally undecided about moving to Minneapolis. I am back home in AR and look back on the last week of spending and visiting and freezing as a little hypomanic episode with all the stress I have been under with the life-altering changes taking place in my near future.

I am reading Kay Redfield Jamison's Touched with Fire right now, a book subtitled: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artisitc Temperament (I've already read her Unquiet Mind).

Back to not moving. Jim, my ex-hubby; Lj, my oldest son; Mother; and Mike all say I should not move back up there. That nothing good will come of it. So I am planning now to stay in AR and travel to MN maybe once a month to see the boys and spend time with them. I have a huge adjustment to make and we'll see how it goes in the end. It is hard to say definitely what I'll do in a given situation until I am directly faced with said situation. I may find I cannot tolerate living 1000 miles from my children. Then again, I may find the once-a-month visit will suffice. Who knows what will happen 7 weeks from now.

My thoughts and prayers go out to the earthquake victims in Italy and to all the other suffering in the world. More thoughts next time...CL