The first time I came home to the cabin after dark and shut off my lights at the end of the long gravel driveway, I sat in dread. This was a huge mistake. There was no way I was going to walk from the car down the tiered steps through the tunnel of trees to the front door. Nope. It was pitch black, coal black, not a drop of light black. Perhaps the universe was sending me down a little joke, handing me a reflection of my life at that time. I sat for long minutes in humorless