My brother called from London at 7:30 this morning. He’s fine, his girlfriend’s fine, her sister’s fine. Deep breaths ( Read more... )

This is just a quick note to apologize for not having caught up or responded to some of the latest suggestions from my earlier post. My laptop apparently set itself on self-destruct mode, and I've been frantically scrambling to beat it to the finish line--i.e., pulling off extra back-ups of every file I could before reinstalling Windows from ( Read more... )

(Firstly, I’ve been meaning to start this journal for ages, and I’m really embarrassed to kick it off like this, with a plea for help ( Read more... )