Saturday, June 27, 2026 

     The murder weapon in SHEEP DETECTIVES is a poison made from the yew tree.  Well the yew tree saved my life. My chemo therapy, docetaxel was originally made from the bark of the yew tree.   

     I put on hold and receive two history books last week that I might want to read.  But each book, over 800 pages each, weighing too much for me to manage. Written by Tony Judd earlier in this century. I read POST WAR when it was first published to understand the effects of World War 2 on our lives. And now he has a later book.

     So, I am just reading the final chapter of each book where his conclusions are written. Now that I am old, I want to understand a bit more how my life played out. I know I started on my first job in the 1967s because of Lyndon Johnson’s war on poverty and left this job in 1999 because of Clinton’s war on women.

     Mourning doves cooing this morning. Fog and sun light outside my windows. Sitting in my room deciding what to do today. What to do besides dishes and straightening up my areas of the house.