Here in Guam it is Thanksgiving Day. This afternoon we will join Tom & Barbara for a traditional dinner, turkey with all the fixings. Poor Barbara is probably hard at work now.

As I look back over this year I find a lot to be thnkful for. Admittedly my year has been difficult at times what wtih the fire and ID Theft, Megan's recent death, and a number of minor difficulties. But this year I found Wakana, and I found another house to live in, and I have two wonderful children who are making lives for themselves but still have time to share their news with their old dad. My parents are both alive and amazingly active. My siblings are well and healthy. I am thankful for all of this.

And, added to all that, I am thankful for you, my Mudcat friends, who want to share this adventure with me and who let me know that you enjoy the news I share with you. I am thankful that you would like to share an evening of music with me and that to do so you would come to visit me if money would only permit. And I am thankful that I would be welcome in your homes if I were to leave Guam to visit you.

Life is good. I have to say that because for many years I said, "Life is a bitch and then you die!" I no longer believe that and I am most grateful for that.

Happy Thanksgiving.