So, things have changed a great deal since my last entry. I will not be returning to the job I've had for 12 years. We will most likely be selling our house and leaving the Pittsburgh area. kids will need to switch schools. And while that all sounds negative...there is a huge positive side! I can't wait to find a new community to join. Maybe there will be a Unitarian church we like. Maybe there will be families like ours. Maybe there will be people with whom we share similar ideals and values. Wow...the possibilities are endless. But in the meantime, knowing that we are going to have to move is simply overwhelming.

I've spent a good bit of energy lately thinking about the impending war...I am so disgusted that we have let our political system develop to the point where engaging in a war can help the approval rating of the president. It just isn't right. We need to look upon war as the horrible, terrible event that it is. Not as some campaign strategy.

As I said in a letter to the editor last month...getting into a war with Iraq at this point will mark The failure of George Bush as a diplomat.