I had a strange thought this evening that hadn't really occurred to me before. What would Jeff have done had I died first - quite suddenly, just as he did? Would he have retired soon after, moved up here? Would he have taken Jeremie and Maddie in? Had he moved to the Bellingham area, would the kids have come along ( Read more... )

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Kate (Leela) and her family and her friend Carmel are fine! Steve, Kate's husband, wrote me a very detailed email indicating, using a map, how things had gone for some of their friends and colleagues. There is still fire danger there, but he feels his region, being in a greenbelt and more highly populated (therefore, probably better fire ( Read more... )

Have a lovely one, aquarius_1977! Enjoy your weekend!

Make a choice for me in each pair and post in the comments. Then ask others to do you ( Read more... )

If I do anything at all, I start coughing. So I sit here. I got up and made those delicious artichoke, yam and bleu and asiago cheese scones from the Esalen cookbook the other day, and proceeded to sit on the couch and die. Managed to take a couple of buddies to the Whatcom Writers and Publishers meeting at the country club in town, then ( Read more... )

So I've been wheezing at night for some time. Doing some coughing. Got a lot worse the last several weeks, what with the freezing temps and snow and all. Stopped going to the club. Broke up any mildly strenuous activity. Didn't take walks. Still coughed more, wheezed more, although dayquil and nyquil became my close friends the last three ( Read more... )

What's the last thing you ate ( Read more... )

Shipped First Class is officially a book! If you are a reader of aquarius_1977, you already saw her post about this. The multifandom zine celebrating romantic relationships is hot off the presses and ready to delight you with treats from your favorite movies and TV series ( Read more... )

So a minute ago I get an AIM window flashing at the bottom of my screen, and it is someone I have never heard of telling me he wants to go to Tanzania. He has a great screenname - TerrifiedCoho - so at first I think it's holdouttrout using a pseudonym, or maybe teaglach taking on a silly version of Trout's name. Nope, it is someone who doesn't even know me, and he ( Read more... )