Wednesday night, in this ever changing year of my life – I closed another chapter in the story of my life when I said goodbye to Secrets – and to my short-lived job as a bartender.

I absolutely loved working there and adored doing what I have always wanted to do – but the simple truth is that I wasn’t making what I needed to each night – and besides – I already have another job working for my friend Howard at Community Home Sales. If I was making decent money at Secrets – I would have been tending bar for a very long time. But life’s obligations most always get in the way of fun – and in order to survive – I had to move on.

I only worked there for two months, but in that very short amount of time – I had a blast. I made some good friends, had some very memorable evenings – and even “hooked up” with a few ladies. Every night, when it was time to head to the bar for work – I looked at it as a party rather than a job. But as I said – bills always have to come first – so I had no choice but to throw in my bar towel for good.

When I left the bar for the last time, a very sad feeling came over me, because I knew that I would never stand behind that bar again and serve my customers their favorite poison. And when I got home – I looked at all the pictures I took of my customers and friends while I worked there – and truthfully got a little misty-eyed. I had a homebar of my own for close to seven years – and always dreamed of running a bar of my own. So while my dream of doing so was only short lived – I thank God for once again allowing me to cross something I have always wanted to do off of my life’s “to-do” list.

On my last night, the owners of the bar, Grace and John, gave me a Bud Light neon sign to thank me for my brief service – and made me promise that I would not be a stranger, which I won’t. I will certainly stop by every now and then and patronize the bar I once ran – and I will also keep in touch with many of the friends I made during my short tenure at Secrets. But life must go on – and now it is time to move on to, hopefully, bigger and better things.

Good-bye Secrets – it was fun.