It's been a year for that, I'm afraid. I'm so sorry for your loss. I dropped off the face of the earth a while back, too, due to my mom getting deathly ill and then dying in January. Now my father-in-law died suddenly, too. The writing's going well, at least, though I keep finding bits and pieces of myself that I set aside for crisis (hobbies and habits and clothes and stuff) and going Oh! THat's me. Huh. I forgot about that. It's really weird reintegrating myself bit by bit. *hugs*