Let's try again

Shar,

It has been a long time since I last wrote here. I have not given up on blogging. I kept documenting my trips and wanderings into my Brazilian blog, which you can't read - you have no idea of how sad it makes me. Why writing in English again? Why now? What for? Well, in some sense it is for friends like you.

The only reason I created a blog in the first place was to keep in touch with my family while I was in Smith. Then I got back home and there was no need for that anymore, but there was this irritating itch; this feeling that I was failing terribly on keeping my non-Brazilian friends updated on my whereabouts and latest developments. I keep getting e-mails from those fantastic women we went to college with. They send me pictures and stories about what their lives have been like ever since we last saw one another. It makes my heart throb painfully; makes me miss them like crazy.

No, my life isn't all that interesting to attract a legion of loyal readers, but friends are those special people who find time to keep an eye on you from afar. And even if only one friend stumbles upon these scribbles, at least that person will know that I am well and missing my friends.

This is not a proper post in that it does not say anything about anything. It is just me promising to come back soon and leave a note, a poem, or a long story about me in this curious city I live in. I do hope I come back soon and get this going. Then I'll send the link to my friends and let them know that I have not forgotten them, never ever, my dear.

Infinite hugs,

Deb