"You were in a dark patch, and you lost your hair ..."

I believe that's a line from a Beatles' song, "Don't Pass Me By". 

What I find to be symbolic is the fact that I named this blog originally "Leaving Oakland or Lack Thereof". When I meant leaving Oakland, it was only to try to get out to the other side of the country to see my dying grandmother (who is still around, actually) and record some of the stories that she has from the war, of my grandfather and my mother's childhood. I never was able to, and had to stop going to school and, in the past few weeks, eventually leave Oakland altogether. This past week has been the only downtime I've had in almost a year, save the two times that my father ended up in the hospital. 

My kittens have head colds, and have gotten used to my family's 109 lb. black lab named Moose. 

I have plenty of things to scan to be posted here, but they will wait for a "decent" hour.

Cheers.