Explaining my absence

There are a couple of factors at work with my absence.

1. I am currently not teaching. Even typing that feels a bit strange. My long-time gig came to an ugly end as me and the new dean did not see eye to eye (apparently turning in grades late was a firing offense, even if the new online system was to blame).
2. Lovely Spouse almost died.
   

We have been trying off and on since Pookie to add to the brood. Over Christmas this year we anxiously thought we had a little one in the making. We did. The little one, though, never made it past the fallopian tube, which, as you know, is catastrophic. It was almost doubly so. The tubal pregnancy was found only after (or about the same time--who can tell with these things?) the hemorrhaging occurred. Emergency surgery later, Lovely Wife is once again of sound body (or at least on the way there) but with broken soul.

So, we are taking some time to mend.

I will return with crass and sass, a little wiser and a lot sadder.

BTW how does one adopt when one is poor? How does one obtain a surrogate on a meager wage?