Birthday! 🥳

Since my last post, I have reached a major milestone: I am 50.  Fuckin’ ‘ell.  How’d that happen?!  I am not averse to aging, gracefully or otherwise, and consider it to be a privilege and something of a surprise to reach this grand old age.  My mother died when she was 48 and I have been following in her footsteps and appeared to align with her all-too…