It’s a Monday afternoon. I spent last week in bed with an unknown illness, but with definite “flu-like” symptoms. I took some tests to try and nail down the culprit, to no avail. Whatever it was was bad enough to keep me from posting a blog last week. It also made recording the podcast a non-starter. I know I was sick, but I have no clue what I had.

Now I am “better”. Yet there are still puzzles in my life. Currently I am watching my wife put together a jigsaw puzzle in the dining room. Life is puzzling. Recovery is puzzling. Yet with time and perseverance, we often make it through the confusion. With my illness, I leaned heavily on Mrs. MoM to help me. I reached out to my daughters (two of whom were in Hawaii) to send supplies via DoorDash. As Fox Mulder might say, “The answers are out there…” We just need to have faith and…

–Rise Up!!