Just another update...

My sister-in-law, Rhea Houk Polson, died of colon cancer on Tuesday, so I am flying to her home in Saginaw, Michigan for the weekend for the memorial service and family sharing.

Have you ever tried to get a flight out-of--town at the last minute, at a decent fare? I spent 2 1/2 hours on the phone yesterday morning and still couldn't find anything in the low to mid hundreds. My daughter from Green Bay and a second from Ft. Atkinson are going to drive over, given the high flight fares. With a back that's seen forty years of trouble and five surgeries, an eight-nine hour drive twice within a couple of days was out of the question for me, but I did find one seat on a Delta carrier available this morning and took it. Sometimes we have to accommodate these personal quirks of ours, just for the sake of comfort and sanity.

My next post will be Tuesday or Friday of this coming week, depending on how things go. I am getting used to funerals these days, if one ever does get used to them. Rhea was so courageous in her three-year battle, but cancer is an ugly killer and her case was very much so at times. So I leave her in God's beautiful hands, knowing her suffering is over now and she can join her two older brothers in Jesus' world.

Until I get back to the grind, I remain your friend and hopefully interesting writer,
Margaret