I’m not sure what made me stop writing here six years ago, but I suspect it had to do with the fact that my siblings had started passing away. My oldest brother passed away in 2016 at the age of 74. My sister passed away the next year in 2017 at the age of 81. My other brother passed away last year in 2022 at the age of 74.

My brother-in-law passed away a week before Christmas 2021, so now there’s no one back home.

And the man I was married to twice, who was my forever friend even when we weren’t together, passed away a little over a year ago in 2022.

Plus I had knee replacement surgery in Feb. 2020 just before Covid-19 hit. I had the other one done this year in March 2023 just as Covid was letting up enough to have it done.

All this and the death of several of my cats over these years I guess made me forget to come here.

I am grateful for new friends who came along eight years ago who helped me through all this.

I am grateful that I was able to walk for my 26th consecutive year in memory of my mother in this year’s Walk to End Alzheimer’s.

I am still working at 68, and I suppose life is not going to slow down anytime soo, so I must just get back at it. I am finally getting back at updating my lost-in-cyberspace Web site I started back in 1996 in memory of my mother.

Oh so much has changed since back then!