This blog is about me and conversely about you. We’re not that different. We face the same challenges, although we may react to them differently.

I have child issues and money issues and eating-too-much issues and man issues and medical issues. But I try to take them all in stride. That’s what this blog is about: Learning how to manage it all, and sharing it with you so we can help each other out.

I also love to have a good time and a little fun. Family is most important, and I live among a very extended one. It is so extended that some of the folks I call family are not really family but friends I’ve adopted as my own. But that’s how black folks do it (or at least we used to). If someone needed a home, we opened ours. If a child was wayward, we took them in.

I’m about stepping up and stepping out, and asking for what I want. And I don’t have any problem doing that. Sometimes, I surprise myself, but I figure if you don’t ask you can’t be turned down (or be rewarded with what you asked for).

Just like you, some things frighten me (toads) and some delight me (playing and winning at spades, the card game). They’re the small simple things that make life a joy, and family and friends worth the trouble.

I’m sure you know what I mean.