This is about when I write my yearly musings on what home is, how that definition changes all the time...or maybe it just changed the once and I keep talking about it.

This trip home was wonderful. I loved being in Georgia again, first of all. For those of you who still call Georgia and specifically Alpharetta home, and who find the latter tedious, yuppy and mind-erasingly boring, have a heart, because even a trip to Publix made me feel all warm inside, and maybe that's something you should envy about me.

The buzzword this year: drama. I'm not going into specifics...I'm not going into specifics...I'm not going into specifics. Ok, that wasn't for the reading audience; that was for me. As I realized more than ever this break, I talk a lot and sometimes about things I should keep close to the vest. So I'm gonna err way on the side of caution and say the buzzword was drama. Now, using drama like that sometimes connotates overblown or unnecessarily public events. I don't intend this. The trip was just dynamic. And for all of us that love stepping back sometimes to see the A Kids as something almost anthropological, it was pretty intense.

But like I said twice already, don't apologize for stupid things.

A whale shark is a big big animal...two whale sharks make me make me like a two-year-old with my mouth gaping.

Rag on the team all you want...that punt fake was a shot to the gut.

Joe, Thanks always for the place to stay and, more importantly, for the endless rides everywhere we go. Part of that thank you is for shuttling me around. The rest is for the conversations we've had whilst making our way from one event to the next, be it making plans on our way to something, or doing an analysis on the way home, it's something I really enjoy.

Dan, Well, twice in one year is a little better than normal. I agree with your post.

Kate, thanks for the New Years couch talk...and the really sweet things you said; way to pump up the ego.

Hanley, I love the gift and I can't wait to watch it...here's hoping someday you'll get a DVD from me of something. I missed seeing you, darlin', you be in touch, y'hear?

If I didn't single you out, don't think it's because you're less important...that's silly and its something I would do. Y'all know how much I love you and I wish you could see me smilin' when I talked to kids at Georgetown and my family about coming down. Right off the bat, we all still fit and I get so caught up in how natural it feels to be with you guys that I am a little shellshocked when the final hugs come at the end of the trip.

Sterling, there's a quote from the play Cat's doing that goes something like this. "A true friend is one soul in two bodies."

Boy, oh boy...