Happy Mother's Day, Mom!
Here we all are - Mom and us in that trailer-park in China Lake in the middle of the Mojave Desert. September of 1955. Happy Mother's Day, Mom! The usual apologies for not posting before this. A lot of small errands, and trying to work in between them: switching insurance carriers, getting stuff done on the house in order to accomplish that, prepping for a summer of long-distance travel. I haven't been out of the country - I don't think - in over twenty years. This summer I'll be two weeks in Japan, and a week in Spain at the Celsius 232 Literary Festival. It's been difficult to concentrate on work. Since both trips will involve carry-on only - and about half the carry-on to Japan will be gi's (a group from our dojo is going to train at the home dojo of our aikido style - two and three classes a day) - there's a certain amount of stress about what to take. Fortunately, one can fit a WHOLE lot of books onto a single iPad. In the meantime, doing as much as I ...