WOW!! Has it really been one and a half years since I've posted here on my blog page?  I guess I do have a pretty good excuse for not posting, though. Uhhhh, right....COVID, the state of our country and our world, mom taking a turn for the worse with her dementia, selling mom's house, family issues. In reality, they ARE excuses, but I think they are good ones. Don't you? Anyways, I'm back.(For now) Don't ask how I decided to come back...well, you can, but I won't go into detail. Basically, I was looking back on some past posts and realized that life has a way of grabbing you by the b&##$ and not letting go.  Life is such a contradiction of time, a polarity of feelings and experiences !  I feel like the past year and a half just stood still, I have no clue where it went. So much has changed...and yet, it hasn't. Sometimes, I SO WANT it to change. Other times, I don't. I am acutely aware of how fast time has passed – how fast it is passing – and as m