Having returned from Christmas/New Years’ vacation recently, my mind addles at the great many of things that hit me this year. There was, of course, the gathering of the friends and the family and the assorted merrymaking we all know and love… the highlight of this year, though, was how we were all pretty taken when we first saw my cousin Stephanie’s newborn, two month-old baby. (Which made a second-uncle out of me, a grandma out of my aunt, and a great-grandmother out of my grandmother.) I’d say my best memory of this year had to be when the little dude, Zachary, grabbed my index finger in his kung-fu grip and tried to ei