I am shutting this journal down. I want to start keeping a journal again but this one would take too much work to clean up and start afresh. And I don't want to delete it because (a) I want to keep these memories and (b) I just finished paying for another one-year subscription. So I purchased another LJ account and that's where I am going to start keeping my journal once again.

If you are interested in following along, it is at http://davidsmart.livejournal.com