A lot has happened since I’ve neglected this blog. The biggest change, however, has been within myself. It’s been two months since my mom passed. Sometimes, it feels as though it happened yesterday, while other times, it feels as if that day was so long ago. I realized that I have been numb for many months. Since maybe October or September or perhaps longer than that. I posted an account of my mom’s battle on my author blog . The business of dying weighs on the living, on the surviving, as if the entirety of the hourglass sands dumped on you. There’s the funeral, the casket, the cemetery plot, the headstone, the obituary, the ordering of death certificates. Then, taking her name off of things, most of which needed to wait until the state mailed the death certificates. Yes, plural. You have to give them places like the bank and registrar of deeds. Doing all this stuff takes a long time. And then, there’s the matter of telling the stranger on the other line what