I'm so sorry to learn (via Glenn's links to Laughing Wolf and The Gray Monk) that Momma Bear has passed away. (I'm proud to say her blog was one of my earliest blogroll links.) I feel that I've known her -- but I'm sorry I never met her.

Laughing Wolf observed, "Shades, know that this day a warrior walks among you."

It's comforting, because we'll all be there.