Welcome Back!?

After several years gone by, 16 to be exact, I started wondering about the Yankeebob blog and if it was still out here on the internet. Somehow over the years it slipped my mind that it even existed. What a sad thought. 

 So I looked and found that it was still here. Nice surprise. So for the last couple weeks I have been rereading the entire blog. Every post, every comment. In doing so I have gone through a myriad of emotions. Good and bad, melancholy and happy. Sometimes laughing out loud. Sometimes shedding a few tears.

Reliving the blog posts made me think to check out my old emails in the account I used for the Yankeebob blog (I never delete them). In those emails I found a treasure trove of memories from my Blogger Friends of the past. That really led me down an emotional path. I realized that I missed the friendship and camaraderie that developed via blogging. I missed the interaction with the people a lot and it made me wonder at how I could have left that fall by the wayside. There were some close friendships made and lots of private moments shared. I feel very sorry at losing those connections. I feel kinda dumb about it, to be honest.

I have a lot of impressions I want to document. A lot of feelings I want to document. So many subjects I want to cover that I cannot do it all at once. Things like the emotions the blog made me relive, the truth behind so much of the content, the stages of life I remember with each post and what was really happening. Mostly I really, really want to try and reconnect with some of my blog friends. After reading the conversations on the blog and the private emails we exchanged, I feel like I have lost so much by not keeping up with the special people I met on blogger.

I plan on trying to do some posting in the upcoming days to document my reactions to being back at Yankeebob. I want to do some writing before I forget how it made me feel to relive everything again. What I have initially learned is that posting here was an awesome idea because it documented stages in life that I have forgotten about. Rereading it helped me remember where I was at the time and what I was going through. The blog did its job because that is what it was designed for anyway, eh?

Maybe, by some miracle, when I restart good old Yankeebob, maybe someone from the past will take notice. Wouldn’t that be some kind of special!

To be continued……..