A little broken...
I haven't posted anything in quite awhile. I just haven't had anything important to say. Sadly, today I do.
Many of you may already know that Suzette Haden Elgin hasn't posted anything on her LJ since April, Today I learned that she has Alzheimer's, and that, combined with other health issued have left her unable to focus on anything--even e-mail.
If anyone wishes to send her a card, her address is:
OCLS
P.O. Box 1137
Huntsville, AR
72740-1137
Her husband George will make sure she gets them.
Suzette and I go back a long way (can it really be 25 years or so?). We have traveled to cons together, stayed up till the wee hours of the morning singing and talking. We recorded filk tapes together (remember tapes?). So much wiser than I, she has given me a lot of advice over the years. Most of it I took. Most of the rest... well, I wish I had. I often think of her as my extra grandmother.
To learn this news about anyone is hard. No. It's crushing. But when this affects someone for whom language and communication were SO important--for whom they were EVERYTHING,...it just seems especially cruel.
I can't think of anything else to say right now, except that its strange that it takes something like this to get me to post.
I just feel kinda lost...and a little broken.
Many of you may already know that Suzette Haden Elgin hasn't posted anything on her LJ since April, Today I learned that she has Alzheimer's, and that, combined with other health issued have left her unable to focus on anything--even e-mail.
If anyone wishes to send her a card, her address is:
OCLS
P.O. Box 1137
Huntsville, AR
72740-1137
Her husband George will make sure she gets them.
Suzette and I go back a long way (can it really be 25 years or so?). We have traveled to cons together, stayed up till the wee hours of the morning singing and talking. We recorded filk tapes together (remember tapes?). So much wiser than I, she has given me a lot of advice over the years. Most of it I took. Most of the rest... well, I wish I had. I often think of her as my extra grandmother.
To learn this news about anyone is hard. No. It's crushing. But when this affects someone for whom language and communication were SO important--for whom they were EVERYTHING,...it just seems especially cruel.
I can't think of anything else to say right now, except that its strange that it takes something like this to get me to post.
I just feel kinda lost...and a little broken.