This rather abstract medieval painting of the Battle of Hastings pretty much represents my personal battle during the past couple of weeks. (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
This rather abstract medieval painting of the Battle of Hastings pretty much represents my personal battle during the past couple of weeks. (Source: Wikimedia Commons)

In case you are wondering why I haven’t been blogging much during the past two weeks . . .

I have been engaged in pitched battle against the (cold?) virus from hell. I question whether it be a “cold/cough” virus because it has felt more like some medieval plague. (I’ll spare you the gory details.)

I now feel weariness perhaps not unlike that of a wounded medieval warrior who has been slogging it out on the battlefield for days swinging such weapons as a flail and a mace amidst a cacophony of agony . . .

Yes, like the warrior, I am emerging victorious, but there is little elation. Just fatigue . . .

— Jillian