Hi Gang,<br /><br />My friend who writes a poetry ezine published some of my poems - <a href="http://yasouezine.typepad.com/" target="_blank">http://yasouezine.typepad.com/</a> -<br />and I have been given a &quot;permanent&quot; page on her site.  I haven&#39;t been writing as much lately but<br />I need to start again.  Guess, it&#39;s been the depression around the job loss, etc.<br /><br />Am very excited that one of the best friends of my life, a nursing school classmate ( so we go back<br />over forty years ) is coming out for a week, with her adult daughter, the first part of July.  She just<br />had her second surgery for a brain aneurysm and has done unbelievably well, thank God.  I am<br />so grateful that she has a terrific husband, a very successful attorney and life has been easy for<br />her - other than this medical stuff, which she has handled like a trooper.  She has the most incredible<br />home which I visited in February and it does my heart good that we will have this time together.  <br />She gave me a credit card number and said, &quot;You&#39;re in charge of our itinerary - spend my husband&#39;s<br />money.  I know you&#39;ve retired so think nothing of it.&quot;  Wow&#33;  I did book &quot;Beach Blanket Babylon&quot; which<br />is the greatest San Francisco show.<br /><br />Joey, are we still on for the big Temecula BBQ?  I am so looking forward to that&#33;<br /><br />Good wishes to all....and the sun is out in Baghdad by the Bay&#33;&#33;