Good morning, all!
And Happy Tenth Anniversary, BK!
I'm in the middle of laundry at the moment. Everything just went into the dryers. Around 7:20, my phone rang and it was Susanna Moross Tarjan, who knows I'm generally up early, and we talked for about 30 minutes. At first I worried that something had hasppened to a family member, since my dad always called early if there were a "situation."
Today, I have a meeting about the Appalachian Christmas piece in the late afternoon, and that's my onll priority. I may go to the NYPL for a bit around 11, but it depends on the time for the Appalachian meeting, which has yet to be determined.
I discovered HHW around October 2003, as I recall, from a conversation with Liz Callaway. I remember looking up the site and sending BK a congratulatory email, possibly around Thanksgving. In his response he asked me if I'd be interested in doing an interview and I said yes. I then completell forgot about it until one day in late December/early January the list of questions arrived. When the interview was posted, I started lurking to see what if anything would be said about it, and sometime around March 1 - maybe earlier - I jumped in. I hung on through WHERE'S CHARLEY? at Goodspeed, came back to Manhattan in July and had a series of health and apartment emergencies: my 18-feet of bookcases collapsed from too much weight, my air conditioning died, I pulled something in my lower back and was unable to walk for several weeks, then walked with crutches, I had a misdiagnosed perianal abscess that, given the wrong treatment, grew to the size of a baseball and literally exploded, requiring several rounds of surgery between 2004 and 2005. I think I was away from HHW for about six weeks or more until the chaos in my life got under control. I do remember that during the last part of this crisis, in October, we had an HHW gathering and I finally met DRs Ben, Noel, PennyO, and Jane. I believe there was one earlier, but at this point I can find neither a photo to prove it nor to display an accurate memory. The photo here is dated Oct 22, 2004 in my computer.