Most people haven’t heard a lot from me this year. My reflex would be to apologize, but this time I have to recognize that there is no reason to be sorry. In many ways, 2017 has been the hardest year I’ve lived through. This has been a year marked by profound grief. Relationships change. That is an axiom of the nature of life, to be sure, and for the most part, there’s nothing special about the circumstances I’ve found myself in. I fell more in love than I’ve ever been, and t