Chris Bellomy:  

Life If you don't know who I used to be, especially from 1979-83, then I guess I should tell you that I was painfully shy, mostly miserable, but at the same time quietly grateful for the wonderful people around me at school. I played sax in the band, waxed misanthropic for the 1983 literary mag Potpourri, never knew how to dress or get my hair cut, and lived away from everything out on Lake Worth. I think I liked many more of my schoolmates than liked me, but I also know that I didn't offer much to like back then. That whole misery thing again. [paragraph break. stupid classmates doesn't understand HTML tags or the return key apparently.] Now I'm a fulltime IT director, father of two boys, and not a little wistful that I wasn't easier to know at that age. Just last night I dreamt about a classmate I hadn't seen in over twenty years -- probably hadn't thought about in fifteen -- and I've spent all day today wondering why I never got to know that pe...Expand for more