Coping on a day to day basis, and wondering about

When my wife and I are out, inevitably we will come across a young family, and I am taken by their interaction and wonder what it would have been like had I been blessed with a sibling. The little things that everyone takes for granted, are but a mystery to ‘onlies.’ Walking home from school together, going out Trick or Treating, toasting marshmallows at a sleep-away camp. My heart aches at what I’ve missed out on…and now, with my facing serious health issues, I can’t help but be reflective on how it could have been, and how, my siblings would band together to help me through this long-standing illness of mine.
Defense mechanisms…Since I was a very young child, I have had my defense mechanisms to surround myself in lieu of having siblings. First, it was my artwork. At the tender age of 5, I was tested and was deemed to have the talent of a 15 year old attending art school. After that, I absorbed myself in Presidential History. I lecture and write articles that are published locally on Presidential History. A third escape was my involvement in soap operas. In December of 2010, I will be featured in a forthcoming book entitled ‘Survival of Soap Opera: Transformations for a New Media Era,‘ published by the University Press of Mississippi. In conjunction with the book’s publication, I recently flew out to St. Louis where I participated in the American Popular Culture Association Annual Conference.
This will be the second book in which I will have been a featured contributor. In 1999, I was approached by an editor in West Palm Beach to write a history of my hometown, as I was then the Municipal Historian. The book is an anthology of unusually named places throughout the United States, like Mistletoe, Kentucky, Intercourse, Pennsylvania etc…My blurb was published and can still be seen on our village’s official website with my by-line. The name of this book is ‘How They made Yesterday: History in Teaspoon Doses,’ MS Biskup Publishers, West Palm Beach, Florida, 1999.
I am a proud inductee of ‘Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities & Colleges.’ A feat that was very special to me, because, I, unfortunately, lost both of my parents while I was in college.  I am told that not many students could have gone under similar circumstances and graduate with an impressive 3.724 GPA.
But, I would trade it all, if I could only have a sibling. My arms were empty as a child…I waited for my parents to come home from a hospital and hand me a bundle. It never happened, although I have imagined it thousands of times.

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