I’ve been staring at this blank screen while trying to formulate an intelligent or witty or at least mildly entertaining post. I have nothing. I realize my blog has lost a bit of its personality lately and I would really love to rectify that but I have been different lately and since I’m the one who writes here… well, you get it.

The problem is that I’m holding back. A lot of times I just want to lighten the mood but I feel insensitive because while I’m over here at Griddle Bandits rambling on about silly things, crappy things are going on all around me. Money problems, job problems, marriage problems, health problems, etcetera, etcetera. All crappy things happening to people I love. And I can’t fix it.

(Have I written this before or am I just having a major case of deja vu?)

I really don’t want to write about serious stuff right now. Well, there is one serious thing I want to say.

Life is short. Please do not be so concerned about what’s for dinner tomorrow or how you’re going to afford your next vacation (or even your next mortage payment). Take this moment and ponder the people you love. I’ll wait.

…Done pondering? Okay, now go tell them. We don’t know how many chances we will be given to tell the people we love how much they mean to us. We are given those chances every day but most of the time we let them slip through our fingers. One of those chances may be the last one and the scary thing is you don’t know which one it will be. So take them all. It’s the kind of thing that’s impossible to regret.