Hello, loyal friends! Thanks for coming here to check in. I’ve been a terrible online correspondent for the past three months, because I’ve been engrossed in launching a new start-up. And I mean totally engrossed. I’m waking up at 2 in the morning with ideas and working on weekends. It’s fun and a whole new adventure that is not bloggable..

With this whole new entity occupying my life, other aspects of life got pushed to the sidelines, including regular writing. I’ve missed it. Blogging for over twenty years has burned permanent grooves in my brain. I need to write regularly. So, I’m coming back to it slowly. I can write on mornings like this one, when I get up early, and it’s too rainy to go for a run.

In short, life is good. My oldest son is currently in Queenstown, New Zealand. He is backpacking throughout New Zealand for an undetermined amount of time — he says a year; I say three months. The airline lost his backpack at first, so there was some drama. Jonah and drama are peanut butter and jelly.

He’s having a fabulous time. He saved up for nine months for this trip. He can coast on saving for about two months, and then he’ll find a restaurant job somewhere.

Ian is home with us for the summer. He has an unpaid internship beta testing software for an AI company in England. He had to learn a new coding language, and he’s rewriting the code for them. He must be doing well, because they had him sign an IP contract last week.

We took Ian to Universal Studios to see the new Nintendo theme park. The rest of the summer will be longer weekend trips to upstate New York and the Jersey shore.