Word comes from Indiana that my father, who has been gravely ill for several years now, has gone to the hospital and that there is little hope that he will return home. He may land at a nursing home or hospice, but not home. I may be pulling up stakes for a while and heading up that way. As keeping myself writing is part of my personal salvation plan, I will try to keep up here, but the likelihood is that things will fall off for a while. It has turned out that I’ve kept the MySpace blog going, too, as a place for more personal kinds of meandering, so I may be posting more there than here for a bit. It’s a long drive and not all the Super Eights, which is where retired teachers can afford to stay, offer Internet service.

I’ll keep you posted as to how this works out.

–stan