I hope to join the rescheduled chat, if our vacation place has wi-fi. This has been a spectacularly bad semester for me--my longtime friend, fellow writer, and teaching colleague Tom Deitz died after a three-month-long struggle with congestive heart failure, I was saddled with an overload at school, my elderly mom had a bout of pancreatitis, our daughter's dog broke her only front foot (she's a tripod) and we had to help out with that, we got hit with a big income tax bill, and today Dom Deluise died. I need to chat with some friends!!!!
