I've had it up to here with winter. Slushy snow again this morning and a nasty cold wind from the east. Getting ready for another trip to the dentist to rinse my inflamed gums. I am sure the sweet receptionists there think I am one big whining fake. Ah well, can't win them all.

My nailbed is also infected in places and of course herpes thought this a fine time to visit.

If I could just dive into a warm clear ocean and roll in it until this is all washed off and out of me.

This is from spring of 1986, just after Chernobyl, a time when we watched the wind and the clouds and hid away our babies when the rain came from the east across the Irish Sea.