2008...

Look out this year is going to be different. I can feel it in my bones. I know I can not predict what will happen over the next year. I am sure I will have rotten days... days where I wish I would have just stayed in bed... and even days that seems like the world is going to end. Bad things happen... friends come and go... lovers come and go... life comes and goes... it can all end in a blink of an eye. I am so privileged each and every day I get to take a breath of glorious fresh air... but one thing is different this year... something has changed... a drastic mind blowing change has happened... I have changed... this year will be different.

Today is the first day of the rest of my life... I have always started each day as if it was just another day... another day of work... another day, another dollar, or so it is said... just another day I wake up alone and go to bed alone. But truth, what is so wrong with that. I don't need someone to define me... I am fabulous just as I am... single, taken, bitter, alone, confused... I am living... living today... I lived yesterday... and all I can hope is to live tomorrow. My family loves me... my friends love me... I am loved... I am cared for... I am in love... in love with life and the life I am getting to live. I don't need to be in love with a man to experience true love... I get to experience it each and everyday.

This is why I know this year will be different, because for the first time in my life I realize this... I realize what life is all about. I want to go sky diving... I want to mountain climbing... I want to ski in snowy white slopes... or raft down a raging river... breath the fresh air that come off the ocean in early spring... I want to live... really live life... until my breath stops, and not a second sooner. I can and I will.

2008 is my year to live.

I am Living Single in Texas.