News from Sharee

Got an unexpected call from Sharee last night. I had just gotten an e-mail message from her mom earlier in the day explaining why Sharee couldn't send us a LOC on the latest issue of Chunga, and here was Sharee calling to explain it again herself. Something about a shark eating her homework. She is at sea again, on a new boat. It was the first time we've spoken since she came up to Canada last winter, although we've exchanged occasional desultory e-mails in the meantime. We had a nice long chat.

The big news is that her mom really is doing better. The drug she's been taking since she got off chemo seems to be helping. Her next visit with the oncologist, as Sheilla told me herself, is in October, and she'll know more after that. Sheilla and Jack are coming down to Seattle for a few days this fall because Jack won a free ferry trip, and I'll be seeing them then.

Other than that, Sharee has a new plan for publishing the next issue of Right Up There! when she visits friends and family in Melbourne around Christmas. I don't know when she'll be back in this hemisphere again, although she's trying to figure out a way to get back to Central America and maybe live there for a while.

Meanwhile I guess I'll continue to play the old family friend. Strange life I lead, sometimes.