This blog is both a daily journal and an episodic recollecting of my life from 2000 to the present -- a 10-year period that corresponds to my fifties. This was sort of a turning point decade, in which I went from a 15-year marriage to separation and divorce, and all the usual difficulties that entails. It was a long, dark tunnel from which I am just now beginning to emerge. There are a lot of thoughts, feelings, experiences I want to get down "on paper," so to speak, so I can make sense of them. There are all kinds of larger political and societal implications that come out of my individual experiences -- and being the pathologically analytical person that I am, I feel the need to figure out what they are, and articulate them.