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PART FIVE

Although it was a nice room and all was quiet, I wasn’t getting any decent sleep at all, probably from nerves and the fact it was the last day of our trip, so I was up around 8:00 AM. Mom wasn’t really sleeping either, we got ready ( Read more... )

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PART THREE

We woke up sorta around 10:00 AM and I honestly don't remember much of the tediousness, except the usual packing up, shower, animal feeding, giving Charlie insulin, walking dogs around the morning motel. Robin pooped on the grass and we picked up after him.

Then, before checkout time ( Read more... )

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PART TWO

It occurred to me only after half an hour into the trip that mom and I were in such a state we'd forgotten to say goodbye to the old house, or to even do a drive-by to look at it one last time. The Russian custom in saying goodbye to a place, and also before embarking on a trip, is to formally sit down, even ( Read more... )

Vermont Trip Report

PART ONE

It's hard to know where to start this telling. It’s not just a trip report, but a great migration.

No, a Great Migration -- the second one in my lifetime.

As many of you know, the story itself started at least four years ago when I began the struggle with Countrywide (which then became Bank of America) to get my ( Read more... )

So here at last is my Nebula trip report.

First of all, I had a fantastic time, a much-needed chance to get away and finally see some of you after a long absence from conventions due to the family medical and financial situations. I didn’t win the Nebula (Karen Joy Fowler took the honors in our category) but then that was not the point anyway. ( Read more... )