I was riding the 7 train back to Queens last night and was one stop away from my exit.  I closed my book, put it in my bag, and got out my umbrella for the walk home.  A woman was standing in front of me dialing her cell phone.  She waited a moment for the voice mail on the other end to pick up, took a breath, and uttered those three little words...

 

"Hey, it's me..."

 

The doors opened.  I exited.  And smiled.  

She has that person too.

I use these words every day and never realized how powerful they were.  How intimate they were.  

 

To say "hey, it's me" means that you need no introduction.  No smoke and mirrors.  No embellishments.  They say: you are my one call at the end of the day and you've probably been expecting me.  They say: you are my common ground, my rock, my Lifeline on 'Millionaire', my home.

 

How lucky are we to have that one person in our lives.  Whether it be a mother, a sister, a lover, a friend.  Who we talk to daily and formal names are never used.  Where we can be just "us".  Us in our simplest, our most loving, and our most uninhibited forms. 

 

When you are just you and I am just me and nothing more needs to be explained.



Ericka's Shout Out:  Welcome baby Katie Cushen into the world!  Congrats to Hope and Randy in Atlanta!

 

Bizie-Newsie:  Shot my first "Law & Order"!  Stay tuned for air date.  And Children's Benadryl National commercial running on a station near you.