Wow, do I suck at writing with any sort of regularity! Nine months have passed since my last entry. Every day is still Groundhog Day. Covid continues to ravage the US, in part because of a lack of organized federal response last year and in part because too many Americans don't believe in science and are too selfish/self centered to sacrifice a bit of normalcy for the greater good. Over 420,000 Americans have lost their lives to Covid 19 in the last year--we've exceeded the point of a 9/11 or Pearl Harbor happening every day and people are still refusing to abide by mask mandates. It infuriates me. I'd love to tell you that I've been following my own advice from my last post and handled the last 10 months like champ. You expect the pastor to practice what she preaches, don't you? But we all know that reality is complicated and the last nine months have felt like years to many of us. Since I was already in a foul mood on Tuesday, I finally got on the scale and confro...