That weird black spot healed itself. I got a drug to try for my toenails. Things can suddenly and gradually change. The rest is up to me: time to let some of the fat go & let some of the shame go & stop making excuses for the imaginary critics in my mind's construction of other people, and be & live where and who and what I actually am. I knew how to do that when I was about 12; time to take some lessons from my own ignorance. It's been a long intermission. I had some snax and drinks and talked to a lot of interesting people and now I'm ready to go back to the play. With always one eye on the glowing EXIT signs. (2017)