as all of you know i am a rehash junkie, i take my rehashing very serious. i have some trades pending & packages i need to mail… the love of my life has taken very ill. he has just started chemotherapy, very very sudden & very unexpected. i am almost overwhelmed. he has taken such good care of me, in soo many ways for the past seven years. it is now time for me to return all the love, care & concern he has shown me. i hope i can mail my packages this week, the ones of you that know me know i would NEVER take advantage of my fellow rehashers, so please please bear with me for a few more days & keep me & mine in your thoughts & prayers. thanks so much alicia

orange beach, al

Just spent the afternoon with my sister-in-law (my role model in life), who won’t survive much more chemo.

My Daddy was a Baptist preacher, so I don’t have the slightest idea how to pray for real. But I’ll think of your man and my sister when I see something beautiful, when I see something that fights and survives, when a human extends a moment of gentle grace to another human. That’s the closest I’ve ever known of God: beauty, perserverance, simple kindness. I’ll wish for your man that he may experience those things. Please know that my heart goes out to you both.

Asheville, NC