“Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between.”  – Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird  It’s been a while. It also seems appropriate to explain my absence with a tribute to my Dad. Last June (Father’s Day weekend to be exact), my Dad was diagnosed with Stage IV lung cancer that had already moved to his brain. It was a shocking revelation given the fact that he had been seeing a cancer doctor for an entire year before the diagnosis to try and figure out why his platelets were so low. Nonetheless, there we were. Daddy spent the next 8 months fighting. He did two weeks of daily radiation and many rounds of chemo. Even though we knew…