Though 2021 has been a vast improvement over 2020, we continue to lose too many friends, family, and those we care about, to COVID19, cancer, this latest round of the flu, and too many lights and luminaires have become extinguished all too soon.

Vaccines and boosters have saved both my daughters, one of whom has brittle asthma and a slightly compromised immune system from the bulk of childhood diseases which I experienced, including chickenpox, mumps, measles, and German measles.