Three Candles

This blog turned three today, and I didn't want the occasion to pass without acknowledging it somehow. And as much as I abhor meta-posts, it looks like this is going to be one.

I'm very glad to have had this virtual home for the past three years. It made a huge difference to me during the really tough parts of my diagnosis and treatment and during the long months of my dad's illness and the aftermath of his death.

It has been a bit of a struggle to post regularly in Year 3, due less to the persistent scarcity of time than to the self-imposed challenge of hewing to the original purpose of this blog now that the galvanizing events of Years 1 and 2 have receded from the foreground of my life.

Those events will always cast a long shadow, but I guess what I am now trying to do is step out into the light.

At the moment, I am squinting and blinking and waiting for my eyes to adjust.

I will probably stumble around a bit while I figure out things like direction and focus, but I am looking forward to Year 4—and, I hope, to sharing it with you.

Thanks so much for sticking around.