It’s been a very long time since I’ve posted anything, and that’s because many, many things happened. In many ways, my world has changed completely since my last post. My family has shrunken, and in general I have attended more funerals than I ever thought I would have in a very short time. I also found myself dealing with hospitals many times, and dealing with some good news followed by lots of bad news, in a seemingly never-ending cycle. In the meantime, time doesn’t slow down, or rather it picks up pace. I do wonder if anyone ever reads this, or even remembers that this blog exists, and by “anyone” I mean humans; of course bots crawl around here, especially with all the AI scraping going on. So, as I face and come to terms with my own mortality, if anything because I have seen death touch and take so…