Back to Michigan

My friend from Michigan is on her way back home. We had two dinners out over the last two days and got caught up. I even showed them a house while they were here since they're talking about retiring back here some day.

I finished Peter Carey's "His Illegal Self" late last night. The time frame was the early 70's and it's main character is a 7 year old boy of privilege that is being raised by his grandmother in NYC. His parents were radical student activists at Harvard in the late sixties and the child has been removed from his mother's care due to her illegal and unsafe activities in the "Students for a Democratic Society". A supposedly innocent visit to his mother leads to an abduction and a flight to Queenland, Australia. I would have enjoyed this book a little more if it would have been better written. I found it difficult to follow. I won't be looking for any other books by this author.

It's weird to think that tomorrow is Palm Sunday already and that somewhere between Palm Sunday and Easter we're going to have St. Patrick's Day. This hasn't happened since the early 1800's and won't happen again until 2200's. Once in a life time!