Someone should get married or have a baby sometime soon. I would like to share in the good news. People are dying, getting very ill, growing old, moving away, and getting more distant. And I'm reading A Prayer for the Dying. That's just bad timing.

If this were wintertime, I'd be in big trouble. Small helpings of sunlight and the lakefront with a big side bowl of snow and indoor boredom would kick my ass. Hard.

To my good fortune, that is not the situation.