By the way... I'm back!

After a 30+ day absence I have returned. Many of you have already heard that my mother passed away on June 8th, which is why I was gone longer than I thought I would be. I'm still in a bit of a funk, as I am sure you can imagine, but I am determined to work through it and carry on. For the past 2 weeks I've been trying to psyche myself up to start blogging again but every time I tried I found myself speechless. Speechless is a pretty odd feeling for me :) This morning I seem to have found my voice again – which is ironic since I have a terrible cold at the moment and my actual voice sounds pretty bad!

Anyway, I've received a gazillion emails from readers and fans and friends, all wanting to know if I was ok, etc... I stopped replying to those emails after a while because I ran out of things to say and I got bored with repeating myself. Now you know that I am, in fact, ok. At least as ok as I can be expected to be, which is good enough for now, right?

Thank you all for not forgetting about me :)