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Reminds me of a flight from Prague to Heathrow. My seat mate exuded precisely the aroma you describe. I think it was his suit as well as his pores.

Flammekeuche

Well said.

Our condolences. You deserve some peace, as did your husband. Roz, supranuclear palsy is indeed a horrific diagnosis. Similar symptoms as ALS, but can be long lasting. My niece suffered for over 12 years.

Son and his 13 year old daughter are spending a week in Berlin, a post-social studies interest trip. No destination dining but rather extensive walk and gawk til you drop monument visits and chic boutique window shopping. At least I hope its just window shopping. I sent them the list of Berlin bib gourmandes, but so far they have crashed at a sushi bar and a grill where they found burgers and currywurst. Happy campers. We discussed that some people travel to eat and others eat to travel.

Husband is home 9 days now from a month in neurological ICU and a week of rehab after a moderate stroke. This on top of chemo for metastatic cancer. His days are probably calculable, but that's a foolish alternative to trying to pluck some joy from every day we have. IMHO, we are actually living.

That was a very fast month!!

Am reminded of a cheeky desk clerk in Paris. I asked him to check the latest weather forecast for me and he refused. "Non? Non?" "After I check for you, Madam, you will know no more than you do now!"

Any suggestions on how to mitigate physics?

Stupid but essential question, what makes a laptop or phone overheat?

Two male friends always rave about my coffee. However, I have found that left to their own devices they drink instant. Psssssssssssssss, the sound of my ego deflating.

Rub it in!

Just so you know, Evelyn and I would both have been there if our invites hadn't been lost in the mail.

+1!

Amen, Sister! When I had my first chest pains (now called panic attacks), I asked my md if they were possibly stress related, psychosomatic, etc. He stated emphatically that he didn't believe in that. Oooooookay.

Try having one around for 56 years. They may be out of the house but never out of mind or concern.😕

Fingers crossed for you. Add that the latest version is rampant in NorCal. I halfway joke that I know more people with recent cases than those who've escaped the bullet.

An advantage is that they often wave you through with a cursory wave of the magic wand.

Quite right. I was thinking that it was the song they remember as being the wallpaper of their "courtship", certainly their era.

Indeed! As in "only 4 weeks"?

Make cookies to send to camp?

Do writers fact check their statements? Even Google for a consensus?

Long before car seat mandates, my mother would fill in the void between backseat and front seat with our luggage and goods, make a bed for me on the backseat and we traveled all over the western United States.

Verticality. I often recall the disappearing pie. My mother had made a pie for me to take to a high school event. I left the house, pie in hand, but my hand lost grip on the front steps and the pie disappeared. It was not on the steps, not in the surrounding garden or walkway. No pie. My parents came out to help hunt. No pie. The next morning, in the light of day, we found the pie standing on edge, vertically, facing the porch wall. Since then, I have frequently lost something that hid during many searches, only to find said object snuggled up to a vertical partition in handbag, drawer, closet.

It’s said that a woman marries a man thinking she can change him but finds she can’t. And a man marries a woman thinking she won’t change, but she does