Thursday, May 29, 2008

a day in a life

layla our new puppy
hello my cyber-world friends and family......well it still seems like this little part of my world has had an effect on some of you and you still enjoy reading me from time to time...well it was what kept me going in those darkest and brightest of times.....in some ways i am exactly the same person i was before the big c-entered and then was ripped from my body.....but in other ways i have changed a little........I cannot put my finger on it exactly yet and will spend the next few blogs and months trying to figure out exactly how I have changed...so if you have any ideas or observations on why i am different i am up for the listening......here is a list of things i still do like i always do.....1. still feel i give people respect (even if they do not deserve it) because after all they are clueless to that fact....2. still like a good laugh now and then...3. music and my mets are still apart of my life...4. when i look up at the sky at night i am still as amazed as when i was a little man....5. my close friends are closer than ever...5. i still pull the ball in softball....... 6.oh yeah I still play softball....well i will think of more as the summer goes on........here are some of the ways i have changed...1..food is more of a burden than a joy......2. well having a neo-bladder is ..different...3....after 2 beers i am full...4.seems like i am tired more than before....5.....let's be honest the people i say i give respect to and don't deserve it ..... well they are getting on my nerves more and more.......6. when i laugh....well it is hard to describe..it is not totally back yet where i can say where it was before....and that i am working on......expect more from me in the next few weeks

tom

Sunday, May 04, 2008

REUNION

shallow jr high
just imagine not seeing some childhood friends for over 40 years and then meeting in a restaurant in NYC on a friday night.....well my brother and I did just that...it was everything i expected and more.......i mean 40 years is a long time.......and the one thing that remained the same with all of us was our eyes...that was the first thing i recognized we we started to feel each other out....all we had to go by were memories and old photos.....we meet about a dozen old mates and it was as if time stood still on us....it did not take long for the girls to huddle together and the guys to smile and hug..( yeah guys could hug to you know)....... when my dear friend michele started to laugh i remembered that laugh as if it was yesterday.......photos, year books, good food and drinks.....and old classmates..... priceless......it will go down in my book as a night to cherish ......although were were there to celebrate our 7th -9th grade class ( we skipped 8Th) and to figure out a way to launch an even bigger reunion.. to some of us it put a closure on the mystery as to how everyone was doing and for that I will be forever grateful that i made that trip.....


tommy