No I didn't fall off the face of the Earth.
And yes,it has been a few days since I last wrote to you.
Where does the time go?
I have no idea.
It just does. 
Go that is.
Saturday became Sunday,which became Tuesday and before I knew it , here I am on Wednesday.
Hump day as some refer to it. 
Half of the week is gone and I have not had one moment to myself since Saturday afternoon when Becca called and asked if I could help out at the shop.
Since then I have run from one task to another, with barely a moment to catch my breath , never mind find time to write or attend to the to-do list that I began tackling 5 days ago.
Which brings me to my December Word of the Month, the last word of the month for 2017:
TIME
The first definition that popped up for TIME when I Googled it was:
 A nonspatial continuum in which events 
occur in apparently irreversible succession
from the past through the present to the future.Key phrase being irreversible!
That is what makes TIME such a valuable commodity. When we approach the end of our days, rarely does anyone say, I wish I had more money or possessions or even friends. TIME is the one thing everyone wishes they had more of.
You can make more money. You can make more friends.
You can create more of anything,given enough TIME.
Still we take it for granted.
We waste it.
We under value it and over book it and generally abuse it.
Flat out, I am just not doing a good job at allocating his resource.
And that nonspatial continuum keeps going and going and going and going and going and going and going.......!