I have been gone these long months, taking care of a dear, dear friend, Kenny, – my first ex-husband, as a matter of fact, with whom I had become very close to in the last few years of his life. This past June, he passed away at home. He had asked me to move in a few months prior to help take care of him, and as I was already doing that, but driving back and forth from my house to his, I agreed.

Things are still tender for me. Since my sister passed away from cancer five years ago, Kenny was the closest thing to family of origin that I could share “remember when’s”, and now he’s gone. I miss him very much.

But I see there’s still fairly high traffic coming to this blog, even though I haven’t posted anything since February, and so I feel the need to pick up where I had left off with my projects. I have been intermittantly working on my book. It has evolved over time with more and more emphasis on healing, and looking at relational aggression within the larger context of covert abuse – not just the girls being mean to girls thing.

So, I’m planning to make some changes here – need to update the blog software and probably template. Since I’m a bit rusty, it will take me a while, but I wanted to make this post to let you know I’m still around and haven’t given this project up.

Hoping life is being kind, generous and gentle to you all.

Demian Yumei
Keeping the Dream