Time Down

I did have ideas for two or three pithy (I thought) posts I wanted to write during the course of August.

A recap of the celebrity shoulders against whom I "rubbed." This place is rife with celebs in the summer, from A to ZZZ. However, I had degrees of contact with Judith Jamison, Forest Whitaker, Russell Simmons, Heather Mills, Senator Joe Lieberman, and Bruce Springsteen & family. The first three comprise one story, the fourth, fifth, and last, have their own, one tinged mightily with reminiscences of my junior year in high school at the Jersey Shore.

But they will have to wait. All of them.

As will further musings about tennis pros, the coming clean of the one-night seduction by a much younger man, my burgeoning career as "the singing realtor," courtesy of karaoke at a famous local joint in Amagansett, another in Sag Harbor, the latter to hold us over the winter.

For yes, I will stay out here now - I've committed to the next twelve months. I keep making comparisons to Boulder, CO in my head. I'll need to put words to those ideas.

But not today.

For you more enterprising readers, go on-line and search Portland, Oregon's local news headlines for Friday, September 7, 2007. There you will find a story about a double murder-suicide. One of the murdered was my sister. The other was my five-year-old niece. My sister's husband committed all acts.

I am tired of talking and writing about it.

Comments

[Susan, Little Silver, NJ]

Hello Holly from Vicki Tashman, Leslie Barron and Susan Coene. We are on the phone together now reminising. You look the same. How is that possible.

Would love to hear from you.

Susan

[Jill]

Hey Holly,

I don't have your email address handy but wanted to say hi and also to say how so very sorry and upset I was to hear about your sister and niece. Rebecca and Greg passed along the news from your blog and I wanted to be in touch. I know it must be a very rough time, to say the least, and I just wanted you to know that my heart is with you.

And...as I was accepting a GSA Bulletin paper today that referenced David Montgomery, I had to think of you and the book you worked on with him! I haven't been in touch with him yet, but I know he has a few papers in review.

I'm pretty sure I'll be home for Thanksgiving and would love to catch up if you're around.

I miss working for and with you!!!

xoxoxo

Jill