Is the commenting system broken, or is nothing I’m logging worth commenting upon? There haven’t been any comments here in days. Or is no one even visiting? Did everyone get out of the habit of reading FmH when I took several weeks off from making entries here this summer?

Let’s try something. Instead of you just answering the above questions in your comments to this post, why not make this an open discussion thread? Enter a comment about anything on your mind that you would like to discuss with other FmH readers, such as they might be…