Dear Nancy,
I’ve missed you. After Oct. 2006, I never saw another entry, but I would see you “show up” asking questions on the Socrates Cafe, etc. so I knew you were still “active” although not blogging yourself too much.
You left me a comment a while back. Forgive me for not researching and remembering which of my entries on which you commented. But I want to give thanks just the same. I am always thrilled when people take the time to leave a short comment on one of my blog entries, which sometimes take days to produce. I only write about one entry a week, but I am also uploading a lot of my MikeVideos to the video section, so there’s always something new to see or read on at least a weekly basis.
May 30. So neat that Dan is retiring. Here’s to a great retirement. Enjoy that pontoon on the lake. And, like I just mentioned, good to see you blogging again.
June 3. I don’t equate maturity with age at all. I  believe, for example, that I attained “maturity” at a fairly young age. In fact, in one of my early poems, I proclaimed “I have felt all the feelings without living all the life”. I do believe that wisdom comes with age. But a lot of young people are quite mature, and a lot of “seniors” are very immature.
June 6. Very interesting that you are having difficulties with Dan’s retirement. I certainly hope these small peccadilloes disappear. Our CEO at work is 84 and still won’t retire. He does less and less. (Actually, we try to insure that he doesn’t have a lot on his plate, as he is becoming somewhat forgetful.) He tells me he will “die at his desk” and never “retire”. I’m still “young” at 54, but I think of a time in the somewhat near future when I can “afford” to retire. Too bad about your own retirement. At 72! Yikes.
June 8. The microwave sitting on top of the antique pie safe sort of ruins the overall look, but it’s a neat antique. I have an antique dresser that I got from my ex girlfriend.
June 10. What a fantastic Memorial Day celebration! You mentioned the female pilots training during WWII. A lot of women took on “men’s jobs” (how un politically correct it seems to write that nowadays). during WWII. Which I’m sure made the switch back to being a “feminine” role model after the war a bit difficult for a lot of women who gained a lot of responsibility when most of the menfolk were overseas. Then after the war they had to give everything up. You don’t read or see too many movies based on that subject, now that I think about it.
June 22. My visit was worth it just to see these photos. Yes, you look a bit tense piloting the pontoon boat. I’d love to have a boat someday, possibly a cabin cruiser, but don’t know that I’ll ever be able to afford such a luxury. Happy sailing. (I know it doesn’t have a sail, just a figure of speech.)
June 23. You were a brave and thrifty child, helping your grandmother. You “missed” the 60s? I was  a senior in high school in 1970. My mother had tried to ‘shield” my siblings and myself from the “real world” but it appeared on the 6 o clock news every night and it was difficult to “miss”. I can still remember watching the Democratic convention in 1968 when I was a freshman in high school. By the time I got to college, the counterculture was beginning to turn into the “me decade”.
I enjoyed my visit. Now that you’re “back” don’t be a stranger.
Michael F. Nyiri, poet, philosopher, fool