I understand about the stock market slide changing things -- happened here, too. Been...nervy, shall we say. Your offer of a ride is sweet, but I think you're thinking of my summer address in Michigan or something -- isn't the convention in Columbus, OH? I'm still in Texas.

I will make you a deal, though. I've had some inquiries about work. If anything goes through, with real money coming in, even if I don't bother to get a membership, I will investigate coming to WFC. It would be good to see folk, and I am feeling well enough to sit outside the bar and chat with folk.

Winter was hard -- spring, better. Have lost four dress sizes, eating macro working well for me, with occasional fish -- now trying to find a few lifestyle changes that will throw me into remission. Mailed off the dollhouse story, finally, and am entering several notebooks of notes into the computer. So, the brain is finally thinking fiction again!

How's the writing at your end?