This year I am trying to resurrect this blog.  I will be posting on it at regular intervals.  During the last of 2014 and all of 2015, I experienced a number of illnesses, one of which was life-threatening.  I am now getting back to health, and hope I will be able to produce some blogs of at least helpful thoughts.

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