My time away from writing the last two months — for repairs, rejuvenation, re-connection and respite from the world of 24/7 caregiving — has been more than rewarding. Resulting are at least two more “R” words: Resumption and re-commitment.

Truly I have missed writing weekly. Perhaps you haven’t missed me, and perhaps I am viewed like the pesky youngster who vowed he’d leave home, marched away in morning hours, but by mid-afternoon, realized that he’d behaved badly.

Surely, thought he, his return home would be with outstretched arms of parental love, only to find that his parents had moved and left no forwarding address. Or, perhaps my assumptions resemble the eternal optimist who ran for a lower level political office. His favorable votes came from only SOME of his relatives, and he was

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