Hello all... does not seem seven years, and in a way it does. Genie and I have been working every day, without a single day off, all that time. In one way, we say, we've not slept away from the biz in more than seven years, in another way we have. When we found her sister, who worked in my theater, dead in her flat, we were up all night in New Jersey, making arrangements, and slept two hours in a mildewed motel room, so that does not really count. We are being murdered by the American economy which is, as Sanders rightly said, fixed against the small bushiness. I increased our theater and other businesses revenues by 800 percent, and still we can't keep up with artificially inflated costs... all of which benefit Trump's class. Tax breaks, Some poor folks will get 1,000 bucks, but middle class small business will not be able to take property tax off their federal taxes, so we will pay twice on the same money, in my case, 150,000 bucks. I'd write songs about it, but I am too busy scrambling to make a buck here or there... not time to play out. Best to all, and missing you all... Lorcan