Lest You Worry

I am fine.

My dad is fine.

Everything else is irrelevant.

It's just that "everything else" has kept me from posting for almost a week—the longest I think I have ever gone.

I have tried to borrow or even steal time to do it, but I have found no stockpiles from which to skim.

And this doesn't even count, because this isn't a real post. It's an excuse for a post—for several posts, really. And I have a strict policy against meta-posts like this, a policy I am chagrined to be breaching right this very second.

But these days, when someone hasn't heard from me in a while, she or he is likely to assume the worst. And I wouldn't want you to do that.

(posted by Zachary for Jody)