Hi Sorcha, and happy homecoming. To be fair, I took two months off in the middle, so "almost a year" is really only eight months of travel.

Hi Mudlark. I'm so glad that you're enjoying my souvenirs. I hope to have a new tape to send around later in summer.

All: I just rolled into Toronto, so that I can go to Rick's memorial tomorrow. It feels good to be home, even if I'm off again in a couple of days. Since last writing, I visited a different sister in Belleville Ontario, and I went to watch three soccer games that her kids were playing/reffing in; I'm turning into a real soccer mom. Then I went to Simcoe in southern Ontario to see an old roommate. The town park is full of baby Canada geese. So cute.

Mudcatters may be interested to know that I've made an agreement with Heather Fielding to rent her basement for my first year back in town. So there'll be guitars hanging on Rick's wall for a while longer.

Love, and go Flames,

Marion (about a kilometre northwest of the centre of the universe)