Realizing how important home is

After watching the first presidential debate on Thursday I wanted to go sit in a smoky diner at 1AM with coffee in one hand and a pen in the other - writing out and exploring my thoughts and reactions to what I saw and heard.

Alas, I am not into the all-night diner scene anymore like I was in my late 20's. I'm much more domesticated now that I'm old, married and 37 :) So, instead I sit here at home digesting what I saw, what I didn't see and thinking about what it all meant beneath the rhetoric. My cats have offered their feedback ;) and the coffee here is free, so I guess that there really is no place like home.

I don't want to go into the meat of my thoughts on the debate on this blog - but I know this taught me something. Home really is the best place for me to be sitting and evaluating this information, because it is my family that will be most effected by the outcome of the election.