My posting here on the blog trickled to almost nothing when my Dad died a few months ago. I had no energy for anything and started to wonder if I’d ever find my words again. When words did start to trickle from my pen, they were so dark that I joked to my sister that if the family saw what I was writing they’d have me committed. I wrote my way out of the blues, eventually, and the project that played a big part in helping me get there  won the poetry portion of eMuse’s Summer Madness Contest: We received a number of fantastic submissions. As I read through them…