I was just thinking about this thread. (This is probably the only forum I visit that actually provokes me to THINK, even when I've switched it off!

JLS is probably the beginning of the "end" for me. I was jotting stuff down (Man! I gotta get organized enough to put this stuff in a notebook, at least! Right now, what I began writing is on the backside of a candybar wrapper . . .

Sigh.)

ANYWAY! It was the beginning of the end of my thinking that I could "fit" nicely in this world, and "do" what my folks (among others) thought was right and proper. I miss my mother, but I swear! balancing my thinking and doing (as far as she could observe) with what and where I was heading, especially when that 'what and where' was best defined as ... duh!?? was really hard.

In short, the square peg she/they wanted me to be had suddenly developed rounded corners, and life ain't been easy since!