Monday March 2, 2026 Retirement Day #2437 I’ve been thinking a lot about mortality lately: death, dying, loss, grief  – you know – cheerful thoughts of spring. Ever since covid, I seem to find myself attending a funeral/memorial/celebration of life nearly every month. Part of this is due to age – in my late 60s, with a husband in his mid-70s, means that those we have known the longest are starting to keel over. But last Wednesday I heard the tragic news that a young woman who