Actually, I wasn't thinking of you when I worried that we had run the regulars off. I was thinking of all those names that suddenly or shortly stopped posting when I arrived. I never got to know them and none of them responded to my attempts to communicate. You, I know - and love, from the other defunct forum.
I don't know Norah or her music, but if you two like her, she must be dynomite. I do know missing departed loved ones. At my age that's a natural. I have found that the more you talk about them or write about them the less pain there is. I can now talk about dad (14 years gone) without the least bit of emotion. My first wife (10 years gone) with only an occassional quivver of the lower lip. Mom (3 years now) is still difficult but getting better. I guess it's true that time heals all wounds. Or, as a former girlfriend used to say, “Time wounds all heels.”