My New Cyber Home + My Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone, and welcome to my new Blogger blog.

I made the change so:
a) you don't have to join MySpace to view Blogs
b) my "Notes" don't get lost in the madness on your Facebook homepage
c) I could give my old ramblings new hotness

My old blogs are also posted here. The important ones, anyways.

While you're reading this... I might as well renew an old request for any topics you'd like my take on. Or you can always send me a "Guest Blog" if you'd like to share an experience, a stance, a thought, et cetera: jarubenstein@gmail.com

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MY THANKSGIVING

...was perfect. For most of the day, it was just Mom, Dad, Emy, me, and Sammy splitting his time equally on all of our laps. We had no energy to cook and would have been perfectly content with tuna fish and cheese sandwiches and football, but Gramma and some friends stopped by with an entire Thanksgiving dinner.

I've reunited with a lot of old classmates and friends this weekend so far. I've fielded more than my share of "I'm sorry"s. And I returned each with a Thank You and my best reassuring smile. But I'll tell ya what... I have so much to be Thankful for today. When I think back someday on the 5 of us together, I will never picture holiday/event dinners. I'll see us all sitting in a room talking about just about everything, giving each other crap for this or that, while Mom's doing a mailing, Dad's lying down watching a game with me while Emy and I are on each other's laptops and Sammy's hopping from lap to lap. And that's exactly what we did today.

I am Whole. I am so glad to be Home.
Here's to what we have, and whatever comes...

Have a great weekend. Thanks -as always- for reading,
Rube