It's Been a Minute . . .

Greetings all. It's been a while! Hope everyone is enjoying 2020. I mean, what's not to enjoy? I'm currently sitting in my living room. Procrastinating. Staring out the same window I've been staring out for the past 6 months. The view has become stale. Certainly I'm not breaking ground by declaring 2020 the worst year I can recall. A confluence of events that have rendered the year simply miserable. A pandemic on top of a toxic political and social landscape. A society that can and does fight over everything. Where whether or not to wear a mask is kindling. Where social media, designed to bring people together -- more important than ever given today's isolation -- seems mostly to force people farther apart. And no end in sight. Anyway, life has been . . . draining. From late March through June, I barely left my house other than to run and walk around the neighborhood. And even my running took a hit (literally) when I was run down from behind by a