I went to a week-long singing camp, cooked a lot of food, catered two weddings, spent a lot of time with my family, celebrated my parents 50th anniversary, did artist management work for my husband the concert pianist, totally neglected my garden, got out there swimming a couple of times (NOT ENOUGH!! I am a polar bear at heart) spent a couple of weekends with my folks, anxiously watching Dad go through a really rugged, pretty instantaneous shift from walking about and being a part of things at the cabin and in the garden, to narrowing his life to a hospital bed,and am wrapping it all up with a Labor Day weekend trip to Toronto. Life is bitter-sweet.

Susan