Those of you who have known me for any length of time, are familiar with my disappearing acts.  *Poof* I’m gone, sometimes for a week or two, sometimes for a lot longer.  Most of the time, however, I haven’t really gone anywhere at all, and of course those of you who have known me for a long time realize that I’ve never stopped thinking about you, and that nothing’s changed.
Images of a crazy mad scientist’s lab might have crossed your mind, or some nutty idea that I’d like to run …

I know eventually that my son and I will grow apart.  It’s an inevitable part of growth that I both look forward to and dread with equal parts of my heart.
He will become more and more independent, the hugs will be fewer and he will stop thinking that I’m the coolest thing since Legos.
But for now, I am cherishing the fact that he follows me everywhere I go!  I love the fact that when he wants to watch tv, he has to be either on my lap or so close …

There are few things like returning home.  I am fortunate in that whenever I go to Hawaii, I am going                         home whether I am on my way there, or on the way back to Colorado.  It seems that I am of two                                   worlds.
On the one hand, I have lived on the Mainland for most of my life, only returning to Hawaii …