I have been away from blogging for quite some time. Mostly this was due to the great hurricane seen here in the Northeast in October of 2012 and the technological problems that remained long afterward. But it has also been due to general fatigue.  This week, my husband lost his 95 year old grandmother. It is hard to believe you have the right to mourn such a loss when there was such longevity to go along with it, but mourn he does... and as a member of that family for more than twenty years, I am sorrow-full, too. I spoke at her wake and will post what I had to say soon. Otherwise, in the words of Samwise Gamgee, "Well, I'm back."