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I forgot about this blog.
Been a long time.
I have become exceedingly old since I last posted.
Oh I still do Zumba most days and walk and run and all that but the weight of old age is on my mind.

There's Trump now.  What can I say? 
It has been said.

I never became a citizen.  I married a GI and came over here and found out there was no universal health care.

Unemployed in Sacramento in 1963 and coughing and feverish with aching joints we got four bucks together to pay a doctor cash on the barrel head.  'You have mono or tuberculosis,' he said, 'get these tests done.  It will cost you ten dollars.'   No money for tests.  I eventually recovered.

I became a medical technologist and realized I probably had valley fever.
I also realized what a dangerous lot medical practitioners are.
Yes I am alive today because of surgeons who have removed cancer from my bladder about 40 times in the last twenty years with only one major disaster (ketamine) and a couple of minor ones.


The pecans are falling, and with them the leaves.  Raking and nut picking will take up my time until about March.  Last year I had a great crop and the price was very good.  This year we will see.
I like doing the work.  I live in a beautiful place, have friends and a lover and a sweet little adobe house.  I don't have a TV or a washer or a lot of other things people seem to need so I live quite well on very little and have no plans to go back to Europe.  But I can if I want.

Oh yes I took up 'art' kind of.