A bit more progress to report. My husband Don went to the cardiologist’s office yesterday for his two month check on the ICD (Inter-cadiac device, I think. It’s his pacemaker/defibrillator). The technician who checked it said it looks fabulous, and according to the computer chip in the device, he has had no event since it [...]

Yesterday was Don’s birthday. He made it to another one, (whew!) though it was touch and go, there, for a minute. We actually had a very nice day. The weather was wonderful, as it is in Southern Arizona this time of year. Don is doing infinitely better than he was in January and February, but [...]

Yesterday, I drove down to Tucson (about 100 miles south of here) to participate in the Tucson Festival of Books on the University of Arizona campus. My friend Nan Beams, production manager at Poisoned Pen Press, drove down with me, which made the trip thousands of times easier and more pleasant. I gave a mystery [...]

Don and I got up at 4:30 a.m. yesterday morning so we could be at Tempe St. Luke’s at 5:30 to sign in for Don’s 7:00 a.m. lithotripsy procedure. We got all registered, he got an X-ray to confirm the stone location, we went into the surgery prep room where he changed into a hospital [...]