December 2017

My last shift

It\’s getting close. Steve was packed – until I unpacked his disemboweled guitar to take a picture of it. Serves him right, overachiever! I haven\’t exactly started, but I\’ve been piling stuff around the self-packing cat, quietly seething. Which books? How many shoes? Mosquito repellant or sunscreen or both? Amish skirt, the gray or the …

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Carol, Sheila and the bird (and how on earth did we ever get there in the first place)

None of this would have happened if it wasn\’t for Carol. Or for Sheila. And especially  for the bird.   Sheila was the Lead Nurse – Canadian, Eh? on my working cruise from Hong Kong to Singapore. I had tagged on to it a 2 weeks vacation in Chiang Mai, 3 hours away,  to find …

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