I'm Baaa-aack! :-)
Hi! I know, I know. I've been away for quite a while but I have been crazy busy with life putting my work on my next novel, The Doctor , on hold. First off, I'd like to thank those of you who thoughtfully reached out with well-wishes for my mom. She was very ill recently due to cardiac issues and she almost died, not just once but twice within the last month. Thankfully, Mom had a number of procedures done and an upgrade to her defibrillator/pacemaker and she is on the mend. As a result of my mom's illness, which occurred the last week in June and went on all through the first two weeks or so into July, I stopped working on everything and let stuff fall to the side since I was spending all of my time at the hospital and handling my mother's affairs while she was admitted. I didn't eat well nor did I get much sleep because everything was very touch-and-go for quite a while while I stayed at my mother's bedside and conferred with her doctors. It was a