Back In The Saddle Again

An old OD friend tipped me off the site was back up and running, so I thought I’d get back on the horse and see what’s what.  This was the one place I always loved sharing my thoughts, my history. While I got very active in social media after the site closed, the quality of the contacts I made never seemed to match the thirty or so friends I made here.  OpenDiary was all about the words and the feelings behind them.  Facebook, Twitter, etc.–there’s a lot of noise out there.  I wouldn’t mind getting back to the basics.

My last entry here was back in 2010.  Since then, there have been a lot of changes in my life.  I lost my mother in January of 2014.  My father passed in June of 2016.  A lot people I wrote about here in a nostalgic way in the early 2000s reentered my life during those dark times.  I had some bad shit go down in my work life.  My marriage almost didn’t survive.  I started seeing a mental health counselor just to stop crying every day.  Things are a little better now, but I still feel broken in many ways.  I continue to get up and do what I need to do to find the light. But what’s been missing is the voice I once had here, the one place it felt strong and unwavering.  I’m glad the site is back.  I’m glad I’m back.  And if you’re one of my old readers/friends, I’m glad you’re back, too.

There will be more to come, I promise.