—Heads up: entry contains thoroughly icky details— Here is a remarkable thing. A few weeks ago, shortly after chemo began, while out to lunch (I mean that literally), in the midst of a paroxysm of coughing, Val hacked up a biological gobbet of something unusual. It was unlike anything Continue Reading
Eating for an ornery old age
Hi all! I write today from my lovely, humid, jungle-green hometown of Bloomington, Indiana. Abby and I drove here by back roads yesterday, through cornfields and deciduous woods and over swollen muddy rivers, windows down (and hair enormous) in the luscious muggy heat. We gawped at the flooded fields athwart Continue Reading
Secrets of “Val’s Kin” Yahoo group revealed
Hey everybody! You may have noticed that on the right side of this page there are various links, and one of them is to a Yahoo group called “Val’s Kin.” I just wanted to point out that there is no need to be a blood relation of Val’s to join Continue Reading