What happened in between, part 2

Love is blindness, I don't want to see
Won't you wrap the night around me
Oh, my heart
Love is blindness…
—U2, "Love is Blindness"

Bono had a point when he wrote that song back around 1990. Love, or being in love, blinds you to (some of) the realities of your relationship with that person, and yet not seeing those realities is exactly what you want. You just want to stay blissfully ignorant, awash in all of the positive sensations. And for the last year Roxanne and I were together, I think that's pretty much how I was: blind and enjoying it. Because in hindsight, I see now there were a couple of moments well before the breakup when I should have realized that the last words of our story were not going to be "…and they lived happily ever after."

(Side note: check out both the original version of that song, from their 1991 masterpiece Achtung Baby, and Jack White's cover from the soundtrack to Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby.)

What happened in between, part 1

I went from April 2012 to August 2013 without writing an entry here, and kind of a lot happened in that gap. Here are some of the highlights…and lowlights.