It is December 23, 2012 and I am back after a long absence.  I've no excuse for caving on this 3 years ago except the lack of discipline.  However, a friend has started a daily blog and while she has not challenged me to follow I am going to try anyway.  While driving yesterday it occurred to me  that my stumbling block to writing daily is that I think I have to have a logical starting point and go from there.  I decided that life is too complicated to be linear--and so I'm diving in and musing.  Agilebabble was derived from dog agility and loving words.  I still love words, but have since retired from dog agility.  Toby, my beloved partner in sport and best canine  friend, died December 13, 2010.  I still miss her, though her younger "sister" Pepper doesn't miss her at all.  Pepper, in fact, really enjoys being an only dog!  So here we go (again)!