This is now my eighth category of half-decades (I checked and pentade does not appear to be a word), and this is a precarious introduction to write. That is mostly because I am currently living right in the midst of it. Originally my vision of this site was to simply chronicle time periods of the past, while merely interjecting current events…but guess what? Enough time began to pass that even some of these current events started to have a nostalgic feel themselves. So the first step was to link all of the postings together in chronological order and create the 2000’s - Late category. But still the postings of this time period (which greatly out-number all of the others) seem orphaned without an introduction.
So here it is. I chose the photo above because it comes from a time right smack in the middle of this period (as I attempted to do for my other ‘intro’ photos). And it represents the overall feeling so far of this era. True, it started off a bit roughly as my marriage to Carolyn began to dissolve, but then I regrouped and began to sail into the sunlight of some of the greatest and most incredible days of my life (hence the arty picture in the appropriate t-shirt).
The era has and will continue to be characterized by my frequent traveling, my unending search of all things exciting and unique, enjoyment of bachelor life - yet happily in a meaningful relationship, Ashleigh’s high school and college years, a great job with a steady schedule, an obsessive passion of collecting movies and TV series on DVD, my nephew Adam’s first years, reunions with many old friends, and best of all, nearly complete contentment in almost every facet of my life (aside from a few medical setbacks with Ashleigh and me). And oh yes…there was and will be lots of time spent on this website.
While this introduction may one day need to be rewritten once I have passed this era and moved onto the next, for now it will serve as your introduction to the late 2000’s. Or I may never even make it out of it at all - God only knows!
Jump into 2005 here.
Leave a Reply