Was it really like that?

Debra Gianolis and JohnC on stage at the 2007 'Transformations'

I'm glad I kept a blog from the earlier days when we started on the journey through our homeless experience. I've never really 'gone through' and reread much more than a single entry due to searching for a specific moment.

I just read through the first two months, which were really sparse compared to this last year's amount.

Course, that was probably due to trying to survive, lol.

I had to quit reading after the second month. I'm glad we got out of the cycle, but sometimes it hurts remembering some of the moments of the past.

If that's the case, chances are I'll never be able to do a book on my own. On Thursday night at 'Transformations', I was still wrapped tighter than I'd wanted to be. It showed enough that a friend and person I admire mentioned I looked like I was going to cry. It was all I could do to just answer Debra Gianolis's questions.

It gave me a good perspective that I can be a good writer; when I do editting and keep myself from 'gut-blogging'; and hit some good points. It was just uncomfortable being in a three sided box knowing that the one side that looks black from lighting techniques is less a shield than a one way mirror.

They can see you on stage...but you can't see them when looking towards them...but you can feel their pressence. It's really spooky...but maybe it's just me being virginal on stage.

Regardless, I don't have to do that ever again...I hope. I mean...I'm not going to be homeless and successful in getting out of it again...

...am I?

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