Well, well.....it has been about a month since last I posted.....I have had out of town guests almost every week in July, except for last weekend when we had a family emergency in Dallas; my most beloved and wonderful Grandmother (age 96) was hospitalized and then put into hospice; she is slowly shutting down and leaving us. And I have been very sad. She taught me so much! And she has always believed in my dreams even when I didn't---encouraging me to sing and make up songs and do theater and to write and to love movies and the beach and.. and.....well, she is the most pleasant and happy woman in the world despite so many hard times and I hope I have somehow learned a little about being as pleasant and passionate and active and funny and a great hostess and....I just cannot do her justice. Let this picture from her "tween" years express her fun-loving nature and sweet disposition (we think this is from 1921 or so, when she was 10? or 11? Not too much older or younger but hard to know....) It is the best photo ever!
(Note: Okay, I will go enroll in a computer class right away; I really don't know how to get this photo NOT to have lots of pixels or get it UNDER the text, etc etc...oh well.) To my few friends who read this (sorry I don't know how to do "links" yet, either...) well, I will try to keep you up on news of Grandmother in the coming week.