My sister called me the other day. She recently packed up and moved to Boston to start a PhD at Harvard. She left about a month after I got married. It was a bittersweet summer for us. So now I'm learning about the newly married life & she's learning how to be a student again. It's a new and thrilling venture for both of us. We also are suffering from the growing pains of being about 1,000 miles apart.
So after we talked about 126 unimportant topics, she says, "I have been meaning to tell you something really important." Of course I think it must be something serious. When you come from a big family, like ours, something 'important' could be just about anything.
"You haven't been writing on your blog," she says then. I realize in fact, she's right. I tell her that I was planning a wedding, teaching, and starting graduate school..you know-at the same time. Gulp.
"Well get on it."
In the midst of this past year's madness & because sometimes I can't write when I am in caught in the whirlwind of change-I haven't written.
Now though, the whirlwind has finally passed. I will write it down because-well she told me so. And she is still my older sister.
