Time Passages ... Like the two years since my last entry. Bobbe (sister) and I visited our friends in Cuenca, Ecuador. We stayed for two months and became quite familiar with this lovely and friendly city, enjoying using our Spanish again and making new friends.

We had contemplated retiring there (our friends, the Keyeses, are completely at home in Cuenca and wish to live nowhere else, ever) but the climate is too chilly for Bobbe and the assisted living too nonexistent for my satisfaction (looking ahead to our old age--and no, we are not "old" yet!).

 I am volunteering once a week at the Democratic headquarters here in Green Valley, Arizona, and I hope to get started soon as a volunteer reading coach with a couple of elementary school children through the Reading Seed Program.

Bobbe has discovered a passion and a talent for making jewelry, specifically earrings, so she is pursuing that activity with great satisfaction.

 It is September, and we've had one fall-ish day ... a hint of coming coolness. The monsoon rains have been generous for the first time in years, so July and August were not as hot as in the past. Still, cool air is just around the corner. Sigh ... .