Long time, no blog

Hello gang. I hope all of you had a wonderful Christmas (or whatever holiday you celebrate) and New Year.

I've started, erased and restarted this post several times because I'm just not sure what to write. I've finally decided to keep it honest and to the point and leave it at that.

One of the tricky things about being charged with writing about life "Off Camera" is that sometimes it's not very rosy. In the past when I've expressed sadness, frustration or anger in this forum it's been met with quite a bit of backlash. For that reason it's become easier to post some really shallow, insignificant ramblings when what's going on behind the scenes is really unpleasant.

The reason I've been gone from work for nearly a month is because my Dad collapsed with a massive brain bleed. It took more than a week for doctors to locate the aneurysm in his brain and do surgery and he's been unconscious ever since. I'm back at work only because there's nothing I can do for my Dad in Phoenix except sit with my Mom at his bedside in the Neurosurgery ICU; wrigning my hands, praying, crying, talking to him, begging him to wake up ... it's awful. My hope is that he gets better and is able to move out of the ICU, into a regular room and then on to rehab.

I hope you'll understand if I don't do much posting in the coming weeks... my heart and my mind are miles away.

EEK