A couple things:<\/p>\n
I am going to be away next week, on vacation. I am so stressed out at the moment that I am actually RESENTING the vacation. Like: I have so much to do, I have to go away NOW?? Basically I have no perspective, and I am sure within 3 hours of actually BEING on vacation, all of that will slip away and I will have a wonderful time.<\/p>\n
In the meantime, I have asked one of my best friends in the entire world to “babysit” my blog for the week. His name is David. He’s never blogged before, but he’s got a hell of a lot to say, and I thought I would give him a venue. He said to me last week, in re: The Red Sox, “I wrote this whole essay in my head about them … and I just wanted the entire world to read it!!” This began my little brain clicking away … I <\/i>wanted to read his essay about the Red Sox, and so I decided: I’m gonna put David in charge here for a week.<\/p>\n
I am considering making him my regular “Red Sox Correspondent” as well. For while I love the team, and watch all the games – my discussions of it cannot hold a candle to his.<\/p>\n
I told him to write about whatever he wants to write about, and to just be himself, and I assured him that my readers have widely varying interests, and are all cool people, who like discussions.<\/p>\n
A couple points about David:<\/p>\n
— David’s into poker to an almost obsessive level.
\n— He’s into the Red Sox (which is SUCH an understated way to describe David’s feelings about that team).
\n— He’s an amazing actor. (You would probably recognize him from various Law & Order<\/i> episodes. He played a fire chief once … that was my favorite role he had on that show. David was born to play a fireman!)
\n— He’s got two absolutely insanely wonderful daughters
\n— He’s one of my dearest friends, the big brother I never had. I admitted to him once that sometimes, if I’m troubled about things, I have a pretend conversation in my head with him – and it helps me to figure out what to do, or how to think about certain things. “Okay … so what would David say about this?”<\/p>\n
Here is, in general, my acknowledgement of my friend David<\/a>, who he is for me.<\/p>\n He’ll probably post something today – just to get used to the whole thing.<\/p>\n I’ll be back the weekend after this one.<\/p>\n Please give David a warm welcome, and wish me a glorious Bon Voyage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A couple things: I am going to be away next week, on vacation. I am so stressed out at the moment that I am actually RESENTING the vacation. Like: I have so much to do, I have to go away … Continue reading