Sorry about the long-time-no-blog absence. But I’m not sorry about the month-long vacation I took at the family cottage in Muskoka. (For those not in the know, the Muskoka Lake region, a couple of hours north of Toronto, was named a few years back as “the best vacation spot in the world” by National Geographic Explorer magazine. Guess that’s why Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, among other big names, have cottages there.) Normally, the prospect of spending all that time in the