I know, I know…

I haven’t been around.  Did anyone miss me, out here in the great wide open of the blogosphere?  I’ve been busy, life hasn’t passed me by – I took a blissful trip, ALONE!!, back to my beloved Chicago and to visit my very best friend in the whole wide world to spend one last child-free extended weekend with her… she went into labor two days after I left (Welcome home, Gabriel Robert!).  I’ve read several books – two of them on the aforementioned trip, one good, one not.  I’ve been cooking like a fool – homemade coconut peach ice  cream, pasta with caramelized onions and fresh marjoram, homemade tots (SO much better than those frozen turds from the grocer – thank you, Hardy Boys, for the inspiration! (the restaurant, not the detective duo, you silly readers)) and of course, lots and lots of bread.  But when it comes down to it, I’ve just not been in the mood to share.  That phase has passed and I’ll probably have something to say about some of these topics – or maybe not.  I don’t know.  Well, at least about the books (A.M. Homes, how could you let me down?).  And the food.  Oh, alright, I’m sure I’ll have lots to say – but later, because right now I’ve got to lace up my running shoes and check out a new campus route.