I was having such a rough week last week that I asked if I could take a week off from the column to try to regroup. I was grateful they said it was ok.

In addition to my regular job, I handle the Gazette Charities Christmas Fund, so this time of year, I get a bit nutsy. Well, more than a bit. It gets overwhelming, not just from the many things that need to be done, but from the seemingly endless sad stories. After typing in a few dozen of these stories to go on our website, I was left with a pretty serious case of the blues. A widowed mother of four. A widowed father of two. A single mother with terminal cancer who won’t move into Hospice House because they can’t accommodate her 16-year-old mentally handicapped daughter. It was too much. There was just no way I could write something upbeat after being so thoroughly immersed. So I skipped a week. Sorry about that.

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