I’m back again!

This is my first posting in two weeks, and it’s nice to be back. No, I didn’t die, nor was I even slightly injured, but since it’s the first time in many years that I’ve taken so much time off from this blog, and since my last posting was preceded by another prolonged hiatus—it strikes me that I should explain my absence.Part of the problem was that I was swamped with work, including an extended stretch of theater-related travel that kept me more or less continuousl