Sounds great, Patti. Are we going to see you on MTV?!! With the college students?

Hi Karen. Good to see you here again. What's rotator cuff surgery? Sounds more like something on a car. Richard, doesn't look like you got an answer to your connection questions. Guess the blog is the only answer we have.

Hi Guys! I have been dropping in here but have been busy since Rich had rotator cuff surgery last week and my daughter Ashlyn was home for springbreak. She was sick and so between the two of them I really played nurse. Having lived in KY for almost 8 years before moving to MI, we are big UK basketball fans and so the tournament and the war are all that is on our TV these days. Tonight my son Nolan will be home from the Univ. of Cincinnati, so it will be a family weekend with two whole nights that all six of us are in the same place. The snow is gone here and the temps have been in the 40's and 50's in Grand Rapids. There is hope......... Have a good weekend.

Dodging the tornadoes down here this week. Weathers more like fall but with summer humidity and heat. Been in the mid 70s to 80s. Natives say they've never seen so much rain. Feast or famine I guess. Went and had a great prime rib and bloomin onion tonight. Much too much, don't usually eat that much wanted the key lime pie but passed for a glass of white wine in the lounge. Hope ya'll have a great w/e. Spring Breaks coming to an end.

Hi folks, I'm home again in this winter wonderland. tonsof snow everywhere I look but some gentle melting each day. We need to go slow with it or we'll need an ark to survive the flood waters. Dave's canoe won't hold all my"stuff" if the waters rise and we take to the boats!

Miami was wonderful, just what I needed. Warm and sunny. The ocean was a beautiful shade of turquoise and very swimmable. We were delighted to find the beach "clothing optional" ! Many bosoms were viewed. The good, the bad, and the oh my! We also found ourselves just down the beach from MTV's Spring Fling. that was really very interesting. It all takes place in a courtyard and pool behind a hotel. Not on the beach at all. Very tight security for the kids tying to get onto the set. You have to be chosen, found worthy, by the screeners to be allowed in. There was a camera mounted on a wire that rode out over the beach to a tower erected at the shoreline. It was filming to give the illusion that the program was in fact on the beach.

I'm well rested and back to school. However, we're taking off tomorrow for Sunday River to meet some friends of Dave's from MA for some skiing. Did I ever mention that I don't ski?? Ah well. G'night all.

Oh by the way, our son Colin has moved back home. My how things do change.

Good morning global Sprigfield Class of '72. I'm drinking Columbian, smokin' nuthin, listening to Texas country & western music on my headphones, and looking out the window at the 1st day of spring in VT 2003. I just got off a conference call with a person in China, France, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, and me in the US- all speaking English. The French accent was the hardest for me to disect but charming in its undecernable way. The man in Shanghai wanted to go home to bed and it was so early in the morning for me that my eyes were propped open with toothpicks. For two hours we were very connected and happily interdependent. None of this could have happened 30 years ago and it strikes me as funny that we connect now on Blogger- 30 years after connecting last. Back then white was the color of the big boss man, a woman's place was in the kitchen, and everything else was "different"! So I dig the conversation on food, wine, etc. (and amply partake in it). I'm also interested in what has changed for you. How do you connect in a way that never would have happened in Springfield back then? How do you wish that you could connect? I am bugged that travel is becoming more difficult and dangerous- I hope that gets better. I wish I could time-travel back to dinners with Gloria Brancaleoni (the K thru 6 Springfield art teacher in 1970). She had friends from around the world that would visit and I could at least connect with them for an evening. . . . I'm just a poor boy, I like to have fun, I know a pretty girl when I see one. I've seen the real thing, the imitation too. And, I also wonder what's cool for you- global Springfield!?!??!! (Is the Texas C&W getting the best of me?)

Nobody talking this week yet eigh? All thawing out and tingly feeling........hmmmmmm. No its not frost bite its just a good case of Spring Fever folks. Got my sales people stomping the New England terf so maybe I'll get to visit some of you this year sometime.

Actually, we do have a jacuzzi at home, too, in our backyard, but somehow we almost never end up using it--except when Amy, my sister, was here. She loves it, so we sat in it every night while she was here. But usually we seem to have something better to do than boil ourselves. I guess it's a matter of priorities!

It does seem quiet out there. Simmering in Palm Springs must have been great. My older son decided last night that we need a hot tub on our deck. He's pretty sure we could build one next summer. His final words were, "So is that a definite NO?" There sure have been some days this winter when we have wished that we had one.

Hi everyone. Where are you all? No one has been on the blog for a few days. We were in Palm Springs for the weekend with Avi's sister and her husband--and also their son and a friend of his. Their son's 11 and pretty wild, but as long as it's not my kid doing the whining it doesn't bother me. We went to the hot mineral springs there. We've been in Palm Springs before, but never at the hot springs. It was kind of cold and windy that day, so it felt great sitting in that hot water. Sounds like most of you could use some nice hot water!