CIAO, CARA FAMIGLIA!!!

Well, I finally did it . . . I think! Vamos a ver. After joining the blog I kept fishing around for how to enter a new message. Boy was I slow! I was rather embarrassed when I figured it out; after all, pretty user friendly. As you know, Mom went off to Lima yesterday, and though it´s only been a day, I find her being away difficult to get used to. As I mentioned last night, I kept wondering how I took the separation for a year in Afghanistan! Lots of folks do it, of course, but at this stage in life we don´t plan on doing it too often. Started reading Jimmy Carter´s Palestine Peace Not Apartheid. Glad you sent it down! I´ll keep this short since we have already had about 4 short apagones today. Not been the norm recently, but it´s a lot more like when we first arrived. Like old times, no es cierto? Let´s see if this first message gets posted. DADAAAA!