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You Can Go Home Again and Again— Especially at Christmas
It Was and Remains “A Wonderful Life”
A few years back, I returned to my hometown of Rochester, New York for Christmas. I had not visited my old stomping grounds, and in the right frame of mind, in a long time.
Christmas 2017 was the right time.
I had just sold my new biography of Mary Tyler Moore (Mary: The Mary Tyler Moore Story), and a few other freelance contracts had come through, while a few more were waiting for me upon my return to Los Angeles (in January 2018).
In December 2014, the last time I had visited Rochester at the holidays, was the complete opposite of December 2017. In 2014, I was littered with anxiety. My spirit was broke, spiritually and financially. I was in survival mode.
Consequently, at Christmas 2017, I was ready for a nice, nostalgic, relaxing and enjoyable vacation, and I received one.
Although I caught a little cold a day or so after I arrived, the warmth of love, friendship and family had an overwhelming healing effect that soothed my spirit and ultimately my physical being.
Sounds dramatic, uh?
Well, it was just like that.
I’m a sensitive sort, and I tend to reminisce about the past more than I should, but this…
