My dear Skirts, I am so sorry to have been absent for a whole week!  But if necessary I can produce a bona fide doctor’s note for a virus.  Equally importantly I just got my computer  back from cleaning and revamping since it had bee...

To start at the end: I am currently in a small town in Pennsylvania, sitting at my aunt’s kitchen table.  Not long ago the churchbells chimed out “Good King Wenceslas.”  My aunt came and tucked me up on the couch with fluffy pillows a...

The news from home being that my grandmother is not improving and may slip away from us shortly, I decided to cut my trip short by a few weeks and get myself back to the States.   I will be leaving Egypt this coming Monday.   I find...