Dealing with emails

I'm dealing with emails that have been rotting in my inbox. I'm down to 40. They date from today back to the middle of November or so. There are a number of compliments and things like that which I sometimes get too aw-shucks about to be able to answer. There are also a number of questions that required some thinking, which I just wasn't sure how to reply to, and set aside for later thought... and then didn't get to in anything resembling a timely fashion (my deep, deep apologies to Beth Wodz...