Bob,

I'm the last person to worry about "thread creep!" I'm a Dwyer, remember? Be glad I'm not twisting all of these topics around in order to get some crafty puns out of them!

My mom had a story about the name of the town Pysht--she said that the town was initially named Psyche but that the locals pronounced all of the letters--then gradually changed the spelling to reflect their pronunciation.

Mom's father (Joe Husby) wrote a twice-weekly column called The Sage of the Stilly for many years for the Arlington and Everett papers. He grew up in the area around Arlington and Sylvana, speaking Norwegian until he went to school. When Mom died she made sure she left me all of her journal entries, and was hopeful that I'd get some of them published. I have in mind, one of these days, collecting some of my grandfather's essays (we have yellowed clippings of some of them) and Mom's, and mine, and to add some photos from my years of mountaineering, and see if someplace will publish it. I've had a couple of editors express interest. Now ask me again about thread creep!

Maggie