Mother Nature Has Spoken

I'm bleeding.

Only a little...dark, smudgy flecks on the tissue, that are typical of the first few days of my pre-menopausal menstruation.

But the cramping in my gut tells me it's just a harbinger of the inevitable. The torrent will come, and along with it, the end of my soft focus Hallmark day dreaming.

I'm trying to be philosophical, but really, I just don't want to talk about it right now. Gimme some time. In a few days, I'll see that it's really for the best.

Thanks for all the well wishes, thoughts, hopes, prayers and crossed fingers. You all are very sweet to have been my hand holders throughout this whole thing.