Here I am!

Gone but not forgotten, yes?

I have been weathering several momentous events, some
of which I will cover later, some I won't.

And along the way I took several days off to go Up North
with my Sweet Baboo.
(Do you remember in the Peanuts gang that
Sally, Charlie Brown's little sister, was in love
with Linus? That was her endearing term for him.
I like it because it's affectionate and yet makes him
look appropriately ridiculous.)

I wanted you to know, however, that in spite of the earth-shattering
happenings that have, er, happened lately, I am
committed to keep writing to all of you (best friend Carmen and
all you crickets chirping away) and breaking into new frontiers
of baking, cooking, and kibbutzing.

Just give me a day to catch up on the mountain of laundry
that is as tall as I am and get back into the groove of work and
cooking, and I will do my utmost to post blogworthy, scintillating
work. And play.

"Let me entertain you, and we'll have a real good time."
(But not until later in the week.)