“Just write something — anything!”, said a friend a few days ago.

“I’m trying,” I said.

Here’s the thing.

I’m pretty sure — sometime during the course of 2008 — I forgot how to be anything but a mathematician.

Phil the mathematician, you see, has been doing just hunky-dory.

Phil the writer, Phil the blogger, Phil the walking, breathing, socially-adept human being — on the other hand — is missing.

Gone? For ever and ever?

Maybe.