mary, thanks for that –sweet thing to say. Count me a member of the marymcl fan club, too, backatcha mutual. i dunno why i ebb and flow on the writing n opinionating. Something will proscribe it for a few days, then it’s hard to fire back up –and a long time can go by. There’s several folks i see come and go on the same sort of lune-atic rhythm. Wretchard and some others can stay sharp at all times without going on months-long outback droolabouts –dunno how they do it –but there’s never explaining how human minds work, they can explain everything but themselves, seems –