My great-aunt Florence died today. I think she was 89 [edit: she was 90]. Won't be able to make the funeral on Monday, because I’m here in New York.

Update, March 10:

I think I can talk about this a little more today than before.  Even though we were all expecting it, because she's old and I think also had Parkinson's, it's still hard. She's the ( Read more... )