Beginnings

It's been almost three months since I left home. The days go by as I struggle to keep myself busy whenever I'm not on duty. I had wanted to start this blog for quite some time now, but for some reason it wasn't until I came here that I actually made myself do it. And now I'm so glad it's started. A part of me wishes that it hadn't been this deployment what triggered my desire to write again. But it is precisely during these unusual times that I find myself, as I've heard someone say before, going back to basics. In this case, it is simply a need to express my thoughts through this keyboard. And although this trip is no more than a chapter of my life, I don't wish for this blog to be that as well. This is why I have promised myself not to allow my days here to define my every thought and my writings. As I told my husband before I left: There was life before Iraq and there will be life after Iraq. I will be the same person when I come home, the only difference, is this time I will have my blog.