People Will Give You Clues if You Pay Attention

I had a friend in college named Sue, who had a wandering eye. Most of us call that “lazy eye.” Sue was fortunate that certain exercises and physical therapy could straighten it out and her eyes would appear normally aligned. The normal alignment was only temporary, but could last for weeks or even a couple of months. I remember she said that she could not tell when her eye started to wander because her vision remained normal. Fortunately, she would notice that, during conversations, her friends would start looking over their own shoulders periodically, as though someone were approaching from behind. This would be her indication that it was time to go back to physical therapy to get the eye straightened out.

I guess the point of this story is that people will usually give you clues, if you pay attention.

This reminds me of this blog. Fortunately for me, if I let it go too long, I get clues from others, as well. I get emails from people asking questions and worrying about the fact that there has been no update. They are all reasonable questions, of course. The emails started early last week and here I am finally getting some words down. Don’t worry—I’m cool with the emails and no one ever offends. Hopefully, you have figured out by now that I am pretty unflappable with this issue.

First, I’ll explain why I have not posted any updates in exactly a month. For starters, I didn’t even realize that it had already been a month…and I’ve been really busy with work…and traveling a lot… and the kids schedules have been incredibly difficult… and I didn’t bring my laptop with me on the skiing boondoggle in Utah--

Oops. I just totally lost credibility on the claim that I’ve been too busy.

And now I have run out of time to type an update, for now. Check back. We have an appointment with Sandy's radiation oncologist this afternoon and I will try to get something meaningful posted soon.

And yes, the skiing was great.