Be Yourself! This is the theme of my life! Not me being myself as much as me exclaiming the need to be yourself! It’s in everything I write and have said for decades and yet I still find it hard to follow my own advice. I live in fear of the very thing I ask you to rise above – excommunication or in simpler terms, derogatory comments from under the breath of my peers. Oh how petty this powerful thing! I do not want to be a failure and yet my very fear of failing is what’s preventing me form being myself and making a failure of me! Ah the irony of life! I lost my father as a boy just as I hit puberty and sexuality and I’ve been forever since, confused on the subject – being myself has been my challenge – a challenge I have not yet mastered but here’s hoping…