A whole new decade?!?

OK, technically, maybe not... but it's good enough for me.

On this evening in 1999, i was stuck in the Daily Camera newsroom waiting for the end of the world or some such. Six years ago, i was about Boulder Community Hospital, watching college football with Dixie-cup covered needles through my boobs, waiting for what turned out to be the first of my cancer surgeries. (Yes, there were more... but i recommend lumpectomy on a good sports day if that's what you like to watch on the TV.)

This weekend, we're in Tucson. We love the desert. We realized flying in (bumped to first class, thanks United!) that we hadn't been here together since the early '90s, when my family used to come for Christmas to visit my grandmother.

Soon, we'll go for a hike to watch the blue moon rise, then come back, shower and go for dinner. We're fortunate to be here and to have the means to do such lovely things. i feel a little guilty about that.

Like many, i'm looking forward to putting parts of the past 10 years behind us, especially the cancer part. Other, more global things - war, contentious elections, economic disparities - are not so easily dispensed with.

So for 2010 and the decade to come, i'm thankful for my good family, my good friends and my good fortune. And i hope to do more to make sure the disparities between those of us who have such things and those of us who don't become far narrower in the next decade.

Happy New Year and Happy New Decade!