The First Year

My blogging adventure has spanned a year. I remember so well the timing of my first blogs....the 2010 NCAA Baseball Tournament was underway. I found inspiration in the terrific performances of the Great State of South Carolina's Big Three. Clemson, Coastal, and Carolina were all in the thick of things into Super Regional week-end. This year, only Carolina remains standing.

I posted a very few blogs last summer, struggling to find a rhythm for my writing. I wrote an entry. Weeks and sometimes months passed before I was moved to write another. Summer became fall and fall winter, and still my writing was sporadic at best. But with 2011 and from an unknown and somewhat uncertain source came more depth, more soul, more passion, more about which to write and an oft present voice in my head saying, "You can do this."

My year has brought me happiness, hope, sadness, loss, disappointment. Through it all, I have found an unexpected outlet and a source of surprising strength in my blog. The intimate innermost circle who share my adventure have encouraged and supported the Dee Initiative. They know who they are and what they have done for me. All my love always to each of those among the first to meet and, both literally and figuratively, embrace Dee.

I will push on with my writing. As I reach this one year mark and as I did last year, I will do that which is so difficult for this Tiger girl.....I will wish the South Carolina Gamecocks the best of luck in the NCAA's. Will they again find the magic that last year led to a national championship? Possibly. Will I continue to find my own voice at least in part thanks to the the one I hear inside my head......the one I am most sure is my mother's? I will try. Will I find inspiration and magic to pump into Definitely Dee? Well.......definitely! Happy Birthday, Dee.