In Memoriam...

On a sad note, and all politics aside, I wanted to express my sadness and condolences to my wife's friend's family on the loss of their father to cancer on Thursday.

This has been a difficult time for them and it's never easy to cope with the loss of a loved one at any age. Their father was only 65, just retiring, when he passed on.

For me, this has been a particularly dark month in that I've now known three incidences where somebody I knew or knew indirectly has passed on.

I hope that this is not a harbinger of things to come in the new year.