Good morning, all! My voice is coming back, and I feel good, but I cannot stop coughing up gunk.
BK, today's notes were really somethng special, and since I wasn't around for the beginnings of HHW, I really enjoyed reading your original post. I must admit that I, too, was telling people that I had heard you were sacked for embezzlement, a thing I had been told in late summer 2001 by the person and longtme friend who did you in. Thank God I mentioned it to Liz Callaway in 2003 and we discussed the truth of the situation from several perspectives since she had been in contact with you. Ms Callaway has been my lucky charm for some time now and I love having her in my life. If it weren't for that 2003 discussion I would never have reconnected with you and come to HHW.
I think my two favorite events have been the East and West Coast gatherings of the Hainesies and Kimlets for Penny O's show in New York and the Kimmel birthday bash/grand opening of THE BRAIN FROM PLANET X at LACC. Around these two Big Events, there have been pleasant sidelines like other HHW gatherings amd formation of solid friendships, and unpleasantly, a couple of tumultuous battles and too much illness, poor health, and death. I am grateful for the emotional support the friends on this site provide. I don't have - nor want - my own blog, so writing to the DRs about my father's decline and death took me out of my pain and grief to a space where I could articulate my feelings. The support and care from the DRs was much more than I will ever ever get from the Macbeths, so I suppose that HHW has become my nuclear cyber family, just as several of you have found places in my actual surrogate. Thank you for that.
