I’ve been trying to write a roundup of events for 2024, but can’t seem to manage it, because the biggest loss of the year looms too large to put it on a list with anything else. We lost my father-in-law, Art this year to Parkinson’s. It’s a terrible disease, because before it takes your life it takes pieces of you away. First the physical; Art was one of those big, strapping men who rarely got sick. He retired from the Air Force National Guard as a major. He was who taught me that the weekend so...