Dear Folks, I'm glad that a number of you seem to have been jump-started with my suggestion of writing down your memories to share with the next generations. At one point I suggested that if nothing else, just print out the emails you send to the list about your thoughts and your memories and what you did today and plan to do tomorrow. That still sounds good to me but do you know what? This evening when I was searching our list archives, I came across a whole bunch of emails I had sent to the list that I had forgotten about. Oh my goodness, all of the things I had told you about! Not only of my breast cancer ordeal in 2000 but my particular peripheral neuropathy ordeal last year. It's obvious that if I want to record my life as it's happening, I better start printing out my messages to continue my journal. Certainly I'll end up with a huge stack of paper but if nothing else I'll have hard copies rather than depend on our archives lasting forever. vee