Life, Interrupted

As you may have guessed, the intense cold and humidity of this winter has been very hard. I don't know if I can stay in the Midwest. I did leave for a reason, and don't know if I will ever recover enough to handle winters. There's improvement, but slowly. And I've learned that your body decides what to work on, when you recover from a long-term condition. I might have chosen a different path.

So. . .I needed to get more cream. ( Read more... )

My youngest sister loves ghost stories. She picks up all the "Haunted Houses of America" and that sort of thing. Not very well-written, she'll say, but the kernels of the tales are fascinating. Well -- here's a gang of ghost towns. I've seen an extended photo shoot of the one near the Russian reactor, but the rest are new to me.

Did you know there used to be (very recently, historically speaking) a town between Hong Kong and China that neither side claimed? Take a look -- fascinating stuff.

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