Beyond Christmas
It looks like my blog is turning into a Christmas special. Every year I say to myself that I'll be more regular and try to be more prolific with blogging like I used to be once before. However, each time I decide to do so, life intervenes with its deadlines and commitments and before I even know it the festive season sneaks out of the woodwork and am back with the Christmas specials. Anyway for the last two years or so I got a little too busy and so was not able to keep up even with that tradition. It's not that I didn't try but just that there was so much going on that it was hard to focus on something that would serve as inspiration to get me started. The last five-six years have been somewhat mellow and bittersweet. In 2019 my family and I were trying to make sense of life without our parents and especially how to celebrate Christmas - or life for that matter - without the two people in our lives whose presence provided inspiration and purpose. It's not that we got...
