Everybody loses people they love. It’s a fact of life — an unfortunate one any time, but especially when the loss comes far too soon. Sometimes the loss is private, shared only with those closest to us. On rare occasions, it’s intensely public. Most of the time, it’s somewhere in between.
After a (much) longer than anticipated hiatus, I am back in the blogging saddle. Of course, said saddle is strapped to the back of a beautiful, if somewhat temperamental and always unpredictable, horse named Elämä, who seems to be quite intent on bucking me off. It’s nothing personal and I don’t hold it against her. [...]
