If any of you have been paying attention, you will know that it has been many months...almost 8 in fact...since my last blog post. For that I apologize and offer as my only explanation that I had little appreciation regarding how much time it would take to prepare to stop working while simultaneously readying a house — in which we have lived for almost 23 years — for sale, building a new house in a different state 800 miles distant, and preparing to move and accomplish all th