It’s been more than six months since my last post, and I have a simple explanation for my silence. Several weeks ago I put to rest my wife’s remains in a small, private ceremony among family and friends. She lost her battle with cancer after more than three years. She put up a damn good fight. And I miss her so deeply I have no words to express it, which is probably part of the problem as I was ambushed by grief some weeks following her death, and nearly had a nervous breakdown.

Thankfully,...