Going to bite the bullet and blog!

I started this blog just over a year ago.  I sit and look at those first hesitant and slightly simplistic posts and then reflect on everything that has happened to our family in the intervening months.  I am sure that some of my future posts will be about what happened to M in the months he was so ill and then how I am trying to come to terms with his death - he was (and still is) my younger brother. I am about to make my first visit back to the N.E. to see his family, I have and haven't wanted to make the trip, particularly because he won't be there to visit and it will be so strange at their house.  I am keeping the visit brief and hope I find it helpful and perhaps comforting to me.