I’ve neglected this site and other responsibilities for over a month while dealing with travels, workshops, moving, book deadlines, but more important, love, the love of close ones. 

My parents have been ill, my daughter’s house burned down in Atlanta and my best friend’s issues, all of them like a bad storm that never stops.  None of it easy, in fact, everyone including my mother are telling me I’ve lost weight, but when I look in the mirror I never saw it coming until this morning when I grabbed an old pair of jeans by mistake that fitted loosely—after examining the tag on the back thinking I grabbed a size too large, I noticed they were one waist-size-inch smaller than my normal jeans.  I guess I’ve lost weight due to mental and physical exhaustion.  No wonder my belt fastens a notch closer to the end.

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