Not until the third week of April or so did I realize that not only does my wife have to recover from her serious illness, but I also have to recover those parts of my life that I put on hold for well over a month. Those parts include the mundane such as spring yard work. They also include reassuring, even comforting, routines such as cooking a dinner rather than benefiting from the incredible generosity of friends and neighbors that has filled a freezer with more meals than we have been able to eat. A steady stream of family members who have come to assist have provided me with welcome opportunities to put together Sunday feasts. And the suspended parts of my life include the professional–such as keeping with my routine of recent years of participating in ALA's annual Legislative Day. And such as participating in the annual copyright issues conference sponsored by the Center for Intellectual Property of the University of Maryland's University College.