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Our new, privately owned apartment has been beautifully furnished and will offer you a peaceful surrounding to enjoy the hum of natural life. We have comfortable living space for four adults. The living & kitchen areas are open and extend onto a wide shaded balcony with a large table and comfortable chairs for pleasurable dining. Two sun beds encourage relaxation. Both double bedrooms have small private balconies, one has the option for twin beds. All living & bed areas have air conditioning/heating. Our fully equipped kitchen has a large fridge freezer, modern hob & oven, and convenient appliances.
Set in a gated 'cul de sac' 200m from the beach, this first floor apartment is accessed via one flight of stairs. A pool with sunbeds, waits to pamper sun worshipers. A private parking space is provided.
After a career in theatre, specifically ballet, I saw sailing the Ionian Islands as a new and very contrasting challenge! Lucky to do this as an employee of an established holiday group a 'one summer job' turned into a 23 year career in ensuring clients enjoyed holidays full of special memories. My greatest reward is to see the pleasure I can bring by adding small thoughtful details that make a difference to a guests holiday experience. I can continue to do this with our apartment, for our special guests, while enjoying a slower pace of life outside of the mainstream holiday industry.
Mandy purchased this apartment in 2011
With mountains and farmland, sea and islands this area is so unique. The absolute peacefulness of the village defies the possibility of stress! The flat waters of the bay, with small beaches and rocky coastline, make exploring by SUP boarding, or sail/motor boating a dream, in summer and winter, and I will never tire of peering down into the clear, blue waters from my board or looking out across the bay after hiking to the hill tops behind the village!
Planned as a place for family and friends to stay primarily, the apartment is set up as a home full of comfort. It suits a niche where high quality is desired for couples or small families. While the surrounding is quaint and traditional the apartment is modern with excellent fittings and style. The location, away from tour groups, allows true discovery of Greek life, but is in easy reach of year round activities and charmed places.
Myself and 2 others stayed in the accommodation for a total of 7 nights and we could not have been happier. Mandy was warm and welcoming, making sure everything was OK and comfortable throughout our stay. The house was equipped with more than enough furnishings and utensils. The kitchen was stocked with food. Toiletries and fresh lines and towels were provided upon arrival. The balcony and surrounding area of the property was quiet and peaceful, really nothing to fault.
We ate out in restaurants and cooked in the property throughout our visit. Many beautiful local restaurants with fresh fish of the day, freshly baked bread from the bakery every morning was delightful.
I would highly recommend this to anyone looking for a stay in Greece off the beaten track. With the small but busy town of Paleros 10 minutes drive away it had everything we needed. For our first time in Greece, this really set a high standard. We have travelled on this kind of holiday many times over the years and this was defiantly one of the most comfortable properties we have rented, it really was pristine.
Beaches were to die for also!
Thank you Mandy for a great holiday.
My family regularly rent apartments and villas for our holidays as we love the independence. However you usually spend the first day struggling with minimal provisions and the next shopping for items that you only use a fraction of. No such problem here! Mandy had filled the cupboards and fridge with EVERYTHING you could ever need. From washing powder to condiments all had been thought of. This made living in the immaculately clean and impeccably presented apartment an absolute joy.
The apartment is in a small complex which has been very thoughtfully designed and landscaped. There is a lovely shared pool with comfortable and stylish sun loungers. Our preference however was to take the short walk to the secluded beach. Mandy provided rush mats and a beach bag to carry them down to the pebbly bay. We swam there morning and evening. The water is crystal clear and refreshing. You can swim around the bay or just sit and watch the sunset.
We did a lot of sight seeing further afield but we also explored most of the towns along the local coastline and found they all had something to offer. We enjoyed every second of our week and found this apartment was an excellent base.
Thank you Mandy - you really did think of everything!
Diese Wohnung kann wirklich allen empfohlen werden! Sie ist grosszuegig mit 2 Doppelbett-Wohnzimmern und 2 Baeder. Sie ist ganz modern eingerichtet mit allem, was man braucht fuer den Urlaub. Sie hat eine eigene Waschmaschine, so dass wir nicht so viel Kleidung mitbringen mussten. Sie hat eine herrliche Airconditioning, was ein Segen war in der heissen Juli-Zeit, samt einen Pool-Bereich, der v.A. bei unserem siebenjaehrigen Sohn sehr populaer war. Die Wohnung und die Umgebung sieht noch viel schoener aus als die Bilder zeigen. Mandy, die englische Besitzerin, ist supernett und hilfsbereit. Schon vor unserer Ankunft hatte sie grundlegende Essens-Sachen fuer uns eingekauft wie Brot, Milch, Marmelade usw., so dass wir was zu essen hatten, als wir spaet Abends ankamen. Auch als wir abgereist sind, haben wir lokales olivenoel und lokale Kraeuter mitbekommen. Wir hatten auch das Pech, das unser Mietwagen einen Platten bekommen hat und prompt hat Mandy ihren Hausmeister gebeten, den Reifen zu wechseln. Auch die Menschen in den umliegenden Wohnungen waren sehr nett und hilfsbereit, u.a. zwei Paare von Holland und Schottland. So haben wir von denen jede Menge Ausflugstips bekommen.
Die Umgebung ist auch genauso wie wir uns sie gewunscht haben; wenig touristisch aber mit vielen Straenden und herrlichem tuerkisen Wasser. Mandy hat uns auch einen Geheimtip gegeben, den Vahiavali Strand, wo meist de Yachten draussen ankern und reinkommen zum Strandbar fuer eine Erfrischung. Hier war das Wasser besonders tuerkis. Die Bedienung war sehr nett und die Lage war ruhig. In der Naehe von dem Wohnort liegt die kleine Stadt Paleros mit kleinen schoenen Tavernen. In dem dortigen Yachtclub, der am Strand liegt, gibt es jede Menge leckeres Essen, das man sogar in einem echten Strandbett am Meer serviert bekommen kann! Wenn man einen Mietwagen hat (was ich wirklich empfehle), kann man auch zu anderen etwas groesseren Orten/Staedte fahren wie Vonitsa und zur Insel Lefkada. Lefkada hat einige der schoensten Straende Griechenlands. Und wenn man es etwas mehr touristisch mag, ist ein Aufenthalt in Lefkada Stadt oder weiter noerdlich in Parga sehr schoen.
Wir koennen einen Aufenthalt bei Mandy in Pogonia sehr sehr empfehlen und planen schon unseren naechsten Aufenthalt dort.
Family of three (wife and I and our twenty-three year old son) spent 12 nights here. We cannot speak highly enough about the apartment or the kindliness of the owners and the surrounding village community. Mandy looks after you really well! This was our 38th visit to Greece and in many ways the area was like stepping back into a place we love but thought we had lost, and we mean that in all the most positive ways, whilst at the same time being able to enjoy the delights of a new apartment equipped to the gills with everything we needed and with modern and extremely comfortable furniture and decor throughout. An April visit to Greece is not the right time to make use of the pool, although it was available if wanted, but in every other sense it is a brilliant time to visit this beautiful area of Greece and the apartment price at this time of year is exceptional value for money. We enjoyed wonderful mountain scenery & walking (without overheating,) great birdwatching with inidigenous and migrating species, archeological sites are quiet and a joy to explore, nearby Lefkada Island is fun to visit and you can drive to it over a pontoon bridge 'causeway', plus if you are keen on touring you can pack in some great longer distance trips, as we did, to Parga, ancient Dodona, the Souliot hills (some great hill walks up there), Arta (to visit the famous bridge), and Messolonghi (where Lord Byron died while supporting the Greek war of independence), plus more local trips to delightful Mytikas on the coast, (with good hill walks above as well), excellent birdwatching around the Amvrakikos Gulf, visits to Roman Nikopolis (founded by Augustus after defeating Anthony & Cleopatra's forces at the battle of Actium, the ancient Greek sanctuary of the Nekromaneion, plus there are many fabulous old castles, monasteries and churches to visit. Or you can just have an east day relaxing at the apartment with its super main balcony as well as side balconies directly accessed from each of its two good-sized bedrooms, the main bedroom of which is en suite. Lounge seating is comfortable, the kitchen is fantastically equipped for self-catering plus if you do decide to go out the "Rhapsodia" psistaria we visited twice is one of the best places to eat locally sourced succulent meat that we have ever experienced, made even more enjoyable by the friendliness and generosity of the proprietors & their local customers. Excellent supermarket, shops & full in Paleiros (4kms). Loved it all!
My husband and I just left this magical place and are already planning our return! What an amazing gem. If you're looking for tranquil Greece, look no further. We arrived and were greeted by Mandy with such a warm welcome! The apartment is spotless and incredibly well appointed with everything you could ever need. The views from the balcony off the bedroom are amazing. We loved every minute. The pool is lovely with sweet smelling blooming jasmine and a great outdoor shower. We really enjoyed our 5 min walk into the village for delicious fresh treats from the bakery while meeting the occasional donkey or chicken on the road or the 2 min walk down to the waterside. The local grill restaurant was outstanding and 2 mins from the apartment! The owners make the most amazing food, we loved it so much we went multiple times. Don't miss the fried peppers! They began to know us and just starting bringing food without us even ordering. My mouth is watering just thinking about it. They treated us like family, don't miss it. Our days were filled with sunshine, greek coffee and memories to die for, including secluded beaches (some with local cows), warm swims in the Med and sunshine. So much to explore and so much more to do next time we go. I highly recommend this divine gem. Enjoy!
The Olive apartment is everything that it is advertised to be, comfortable, convenient, very light and airy spaces. The location for us was perfect. The surrounding areas are quiet & tranquil, adjacent apartments were quiet, local restaurant is very close with friendly owners and delicious food.
We stayed 5 days, Mandy met us right away, she even had some provisions for us.
It is a charming place with all modern conveniences and very well maintained, we did not cook much, however the kitchen is perfect for preparing any size meal.
The balcony's were our favorite spot as our weather was wonderful, it was cool enough so we did not use the air con, once you open the doors there is a nice breeze to keep cool, another great feature are the roller shutters on the windows, that keep the bedrooms nice & dark @ night, and allow you to keep a breeze coming though the apartment by leaving the windows open. The beds are very comfortable and the showers are excellent.
There is a TV but we did not use it much.
We really enjoyed eating at the local restaurant, our phrase book came in very handy, and it was fun observing the local men cooking together.
The pool is very well maintained and the loungers were very comfortable
The Bakery was another favorite, gotta get up early to get the fresh bread and tasty Feta cheese pies.
We drove around quite a bit, visited Lefkas Island, Lefkas Town is a great stop for a coffee and ouzo, also visited Nidri, great for a Gyro and some knock off handbags, and Poros Beach, a little bit secluded but worth the drive.
We drove north of Preveza to find some great beaches, and south to Mitikas which is a quiet fishing town, but has some great local eating spots.
So whether you want a relaxing, get away from it all time, or a base to do day trips from, the Olive apartment is the perfect place for all.
We would highly recommend the Olive apartment to anyone who wants a great Greek experience, and we can't wait to return.
The local shoreline has shallow and warm water, with rocky outcrops and an interesting coastline which is perfect for Swimming & Snorkeling. The surrounding beaches are suitable for Windsurfing, Kite surfing, SUP boarding & Dinghy sailing, with calm clear seas in the morning and an offshore breeze which picks up in the afternoon. From the apartment there are many routes for Walking, Hiking and Mountain biking.
The beautiful Islands of Meganisi and Kalamos are in view and only 16 km away The adjacent town of Palairos offers Yacht, Motor boat & Speed boat daily hires. It also has a good choice of beach front Tavernas and Bars. The lake north of the bay is a protected wetland that attracts seasonal migratory birds, with many Ancient sites and Castles the area has a fascinating history and much to explore.
The local market town of Levkas Island, (which is accessed via a bridge), is lively and bustling. It has many bars & restaurants and a thriving nightlife. Away from the coastline tradition survives and a more sedate pace of life continues as it has for centuries.
Update May 2015. A low cost airline now fly's into our local airport of Preveza (PVK), from London Gatwick, making access both easier and cheaper to this region.
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As we are in the midst of the sesquicentennial of the assault on Battery/Fort Wagner outside Charleston, SC, you can find a lot of new articles, posts, and opinions on the web right about now. Some of them are even concerned with what actually happened there. For a good example of this, see this post from Craig Swain. If you're a true First Bull Run geek (I'm not sure there are more than two of us, though) you'll see a link to our little battle in Craig's post: the name John Chatfield. This is the same John Lyman Chatfield (at left, from Hunt, Colonels in Blue: The New England States) who was the colonel of the 3rd CT in Erasmus Keyes's brigade of John Tyler's Division. At the assault on Wagner, he was in command of the 6th CT of George Strong's brigade, and was mortally wounded, as was Strong. You can read more on Seymour's death in Colonel Chatfield's Courage, or A Share of "Glory" .
A First Bull Run Connection with Battery Wagner19 07 2013
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The New York "Irish-American"28 01 2012
A big thanks go out to FOBR (Friend of Bull Runnings) Damian Shiels, a professional archaeologist who specializes in military archaeology and who runs Irish in the American Civil War from, of all places, Ireland. He's been feeding me clippings from the New York Irish-American, featuring letters primarily from the 69th New York State Militia on the battle. I hope you're enjoying them. I think they're great, especially in illustrating the limited perspective of most private soldiers during battle.
Just a word – you should keep in mind that the 69th NYSM is NOT the 69th New York Volunteers that would be a part of the famous Irish Brigade. That was a completely different organization, although some (and it's hard to say how many) members of the 69th NYSM did join the 69th NYV. I've been informed that there was some division among the men of the militia units in their loyalty to its colonel, Michael Corcoran, and the captain of Co. K, Thomas Francis Meagher. The schism was perhaps rooted in the Fenian movement. While Meagher was recruiting up the new 69th NYV, some members of the militia unit, which had mustered out of US service when its 90 days were up shortly after Bull Run, joined him, some decided to stay with the militia, and some joined other units, including the 88th and 63rd NYV which also became part of the Irish Brigade, and the various regiments of Corcoran's Irish Legion which was formed after Corcoran's release from captivity and his promotion to brigadier-general. The 69th NYSM would operate through the war, being called back into emergency service once or twice more during the conflict, and in fact it survives to this very day and has an illustrious history including Father Duffy (as portrayed by Pat O'Brien, above with James Cagney, in The Fighting 69th; below is my 2004 snapshot of Duffy's statue in Duffy Square in NYC). So, no, the Irish Brigade was not at Bull Run, and neither was the regiment that would be a part of that brigade and known as the 69th NYV.
Hope that makes sense!
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Image Found!17 10 2011
A while back in this post I asked for some assistance in finding images for Bull Run commanders. I got my first response yesterday from reader Bruce Baryla, who informed me that he had located a CDV of Col. George W. McLean of the 2nd NJ Infantry. The image
is currently available for purchase sold on eBay here, where you'll also find his biographical sketch of McLean. Bruce has given me permission to reproduce the image, and here it is below.
I still need all of these:
- Capt. Otis Tillinghast
- Surgeon William Shakespeare King
- Capt. Josiah Howard Carlisle – 2nd US Arty
- Capt. James Kelly – 69th NYSM
- Lt. Col. Henry Peck – 2nd Wisc Vols
- Maj. Adolphus Williams – 2nd Mich Inf
- Lt. Col. Ambrose Stevens – 3rd Mich Inf
- Lt. John Edwards – 1st US Arty
- Col. George Lyons – 8th NYSM
- Major John G. Reynolds USMC
- Col. George Clark, Jr – 11th Mass Inf
- Maj. Alonzo F. Bidwell – 1st Mich Inf
- Maj. Henry Genet Staples – 3rd Maine Inf
- Col. Adolphus J. Johnson – 1st NJSM
- Col. Henry M. Baker – 2nd NJSM
- Col. William Napton – 3rd NJSM
- Col. Matthew Miller – 4th NJSM
- Col. William R. Montgomery – 1st NJ Inf
- Col. George W. McLean – 2nd NJ Inf (FOUND! Thanks, reader Bruce Baryla)
- Co. Max Einstein – 27th PA Inf
- Capt. C. Brookwood – Brookwood's (Varian's) NY Battery
- Col. William Ayrault Jackson – 18th NY Inf
- Col. Calvin Edward Platt – 31st NY Inf
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William Fitzhugh Lee17 10 2011
Here's an interesting bit on William Fitzhugh Lee of the 33rd VA, mortally wounded at First Bull Run. Below are images I recorded of his grave in Elmwood Cemetery, Shepherdstown, WV, a few years ago.
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Lt. John P. Shaw, Co. F, 2nd RI Infantry3 10 2011
The Lieutenant Shaw who authored this account of his experience in the Battle of Bull Run is most likely John P. Shaw, who would die a captain in the regiment during the Overland Campaign in 1864. Here's a photo of Shaw courtesy of the Library of Congress:
The LOC info on this image:
Title: Camp Brightwood, D.C.–Contrabands in 2nd R.I. Camp
Date Created/Published: [between 1861 and 1865]
Medium: 1 photographic print on carte de visite mount: albumen; 10×6 cm.
Summary: Capt. B.S. Brown (left); Lt. John P. Shaw, Co. F 2nd Regt. Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry (center); and Lt. Fry (right) with African American men and boy.
Notice the distinctive early war Rhode Island blouses and Shaw's name stenciled on the folding camp stool at right. The regiment encamped in Camp Brightwood in the fall and winter of 1861-62.
Several sources, including the Official Army Register (which is probably the culprit), list Shaw as killed at the Wilderness on May 5, 1861. However, Augustus Woodbury's history of the regiment has this memorial biography:
Captain John P. Shaw, son of General James Shaw, was born in Providence, January 3rd, 1834. He was instructed in the common schools of Providence, and became by occupation a jeweller. He was married, September 13th, 1854, to Amanda O., daughter of William P. Brightman. At the outset of the rebellion he joined the First Rhode Island, as sergeant-major, and, on the formation of the Second, was appointed second lieutenant of Company F. He was successively promoted to first lieutenant, July 22nd, 1861, and captain, July 24th, 1862, of Company K. He was particularly efficient as a drill and recruiting officer, and, while as lieutenant, during the absence of his captain, he received, in special orders, the congratulations and commendation of Colonel Wheaton, for the "entire success with which he had performed the duties of a higher grade." In battle he was known as a brave and gallant officer, and was selected more than once to perform services of a peculiarly difficult kind. He fell in the bloody battle before Spottsylvania Court House, May 12th, 1864. The generous words of Colonel Edwards, in his farewell order to the Second, on the departure of the Regiment from Cold Harbor, have already been given. In a private letter to General Shaw the colonel rendered an additional testimony of his regard: "Captain Shaw died fighting so bravely, was so conspicuous among the bravest, that I could not help noticing him particularly. I and all that knew him are fellow mourners."
And Elisha Hunt Rhodes describes Shaw's death in his diary entry Line of Battle Near Spottsylvania Court House, May 13th 1864:
In front of our line there was an open plain for perhaps two hundred yards and then there were thick woods. The Rebels formed in the woods and then sent forward a small party with a white flag. As we saw the flag we ceased firing, and the officers jumped upon the parapet, but as the party approached they were followed by a line of battle who rushed upon us with yells. Our men quickly recovered from the surprise and gave them a volley which sent them flying to the woods. From the woods a steady fire was kept up until after midnight. The guns which I mentioned above were still standing idle in the angle and neither party could get them. A Brigade of New Jersey troops were brought up and attempted to enter the angle but were driven back. General Sickles' old Brigade (the Excelsior) were then brought up, but the men could not stand the terrible fire and instead of advancing in line only formed a semicircle about the guns. Capt. John P. Shaw of Co. "K" 2nd R. I. Volunteers was standing upon a stump and waving his sword to encourage these men when he suddenly fell backwards. I shouted to Major Jencks that Shaw was down. I ran to him and found him lying with his head upon an ammunition box. I raised him up, and the blood spurted from the wound in his breast, and he was dead. As I had lost my pistol I took his and placed it in my holster and will, if I live, send it home to the Captain's father.
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Notes to Charles Woodward Hutson, Hampton's Legion, On the Battle6 08 2011
The author of this stunning account of the battle, which he penned while recovering from his wound the day after the battle, became something of a celebrity late in life. Charles W. Hutson was born in McPhersonville, SC in 1840, and attended South Carolina College (now the University of South Carolina). He served through the Civil War. After its end he was admitted to the bar, but eschewing the practice he taught throughout the south, including at the University of Mississippi, Louisiana State University, and Texas A&M. His subjects included Greek, metaphysics, moral philosophy, history, and modern languages. He also authored numerous books on civilization and languages.
After his teaching career ended, he settled in New Orleans and took up painting. Though his trained artist daughter offered to teach him the basics, he insisted on an amateur's approach. In 1917, at the age of 77, his works were first shown publicly, in New York. His first one-man show came in 1931, at 91. He gained a solid national reputation, though his landscape artwork is hard to categorize. Here are some examples of his work.
Charles Woodward Hutson died in New Orleans in 1936, having proven you're never to old to try something new.
Update – A friend in North Carolina left this comment, and it's worth moving into the post:
Charles Woodward Hutson was a well-connected young man in South Carolina. His father, William Ferguson Hutson, was one of the framers/drafters of the South Carolina Ordinance of Secession. On September 9, 1862, the elder Hutson wrote a letter to the Confederate secretary of war requesting a promotion to lieutenant and transfer for his son to the "Regulars of the State of South Carolina." I think you'll recognize the names of the three men who signed the letter of recommendation: "It gives me great pleasure to recommend the most favorable consideration of the Secretary of War for C. Woodward Hutson for the appointment of lieutentnant." Signed: James Chesnut, Jr., R.W. Barnwell, D. F. Jamison.
Thanks, Tonia Smith!
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The Bensons of Sudley Church1 03 2011
An edited version of this story ran in the April 2011 issue of Civil War Times. I'm running it here with additional photos with permission of the publisher. It is titled as it appears in the magazine.
Repaying a Debt of Compassion
Today a pile of rubble, hard by the cut of the still unfinished Manassas Gap Railroad and across the road from the impressive bulk of the Sudley Church, is all that marks the site of what tradition holds was the home of Amos Benson and his wife Margaret. Precisely when the Bensons occupied the house is not clear, but it was not until after the war was over. By most accounts it was to the modest dwelling known appropriately as "Christian Hill" that John L. Rice, erstwhile private of the 2nd New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, made his way on horseback from Washington, DC in October, 1886. He had a debt to pay. How he had incurred that debt and how he went about paying it is the stuff of legend, a story of compassion and reconciliation.
The pre-war history of the Bensons is sketchy. Amos was born in September, 1825, in Maryland; Margaret Newman was born in May of 1821 and grew up in the vicinity of Sudley Springs. The two were married sometime prior to 1850. Census records and maps indicate that at the time of the Battle of First Bull Run the Bensons were living east – the "other" side – of Bull Run, in Fairfax County. In March of 1862, Amos would leave Margaret to go to war with Company A of the 4th Virginia Cavalry, a unit whose roster was thick with names from the area. He eventually rose to the rank of third corporal.
On Sunday morning, July 21, 1861, members of the congregation to which Amos and Margaret belonged made their way along roads and trails to the Sudley Methodist Church along the Sudley Road south of the fords over Bull and Catharpin Runs. They were no doubt startled to encounter columns of soldiers marching down the main road. The worshippers had run headlong into the advance of Union General Irvin McDowell's army as it moved to turn the forces of Confederate generals P. G. T. Beauregard and Joseph E. Johnston from their positions along Bull Run.
At the head of that column was Colonel Ambrose Burnside's brigade of Col. David Hunter's division, which included Rice's 2nd NH. Despite initial success in the morning, later in the afternoon McDowell's forces were driven back from the Confederate position near the Henry house. Prior to the retreat Rice was wounded, shot through the lungs by a musket ball. His fellows carried him towards the rear and Sudley Church where Union surgeons had set up shop, but with the enemy closing in and Rice apparently dead, they laid him in under a fence and made good their escape. Two days later, Rice recovered consciousness, still under the fence where his comrades had left him. His wound had putrefied and become infested with maggots.
Later that evening, as they were making their way back to their home from Sudley Church where they had been assisting with the care of wounded Union soldiers, the Benson's found Rice in his dire state. Amos went back to the church and returned with a Confederate surgeon. The exhausted doctor dismissed Rice as a hopeless case and returned to his duties, but the Bensons were determined. Margaret brought some food from their home and Amos stripped and washed Rice and cleaned out his wound. He was too seriously injured to move, so for ten days the Benson's clothed, fed, and cared for Rice under the fence, until he was well enough to move to a freight car in Manassas for treatment and eventual imprisonment in Richmond.
Rice was later exchanged and re-enlisted to serve again in the war, becoming an officer. But even twenty-five years later he had not forgotten the Bensons and the debt he felt he owed. In 1886 while on a trip to the nation's capital he determined to revisit the site of his near-death experience. He made inquiries in the area and found the Bensons. They took him to the place where they had nursed him and visited the battlefield. Rice learned of Amos's service in the war and was surprised to realize that he had doubtless faced his benefactor on the battlefield.
Rice of course thanked the Bensons for their kindness and attention in his time of need, and they modestly said they were simply "obeying the dictates of humanity". Rice persisted in his efforts to find some way to repay the Bensons, and Amos hit upon a solution:
"If you want to do that you can help us poor people here pay for our little church yonder. We owe $200 on it yet, which in this poor country is a heavy burden."
Rice determined then to not only contribute, but to return to his home in Massachusetts and raise the entire sum of the debt remaining on the rebuilt Sudley Church, which had been destroyed during the war. On November 24, he told story of his wounding, the kindness of the Bensons, and the plight of the congregation in the pages of Springfield's "The Republican":
"I do not know what creed is taught in that church, but it cannot be wrong in any essential of Christian faith when it bears such fruit as I have described…There must be still living many Massachusetts soldiers who can bear testimony with me to the timely aid rendered by those people when so many of our wounded were left uncared for on that disastrous field."
By November 28, Rice had received $235 from seventy-nine people, including twenty-seven veterans. The donations ranged from $0.50 to $20.00. In describing the religious and political backgrounds of the contributors to the Bensons, Rice quoted Alfred, Lord Tennyson:
"Saxon and Norman and Dane are we,
But all of us Danes in welcome of thee"
And in a letter of thanks to Rice, Amos said the value of the act was more than financial. In fact, it had "converted" the previously un-reconstructed Margaret. John Rice's debt to the Bensons was repaid.
A history of the Sudley Church states that once the war ended Amos and Margaret moved to Warrenton, and in the early 1880's had come back to the area of the Springs and were living in a house located 1/8 mile south of Sudley Church and owned by Reverend Henry Cushing – probably Christian Hill. Margaret died in 1898, and Amos followed her in 1901. They are buried together very near the southern door of the modern Sudley Church. The shared marker says of Amos: "He was a good man and full of faith"; of Margaret: "She was a child of God, lived a happy life and died in peace."
As is often the case, there are some parts of the story of what happened after Rice's wounding that are in doubt. See John Hennessy's post here.
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Wife wasn't too keen on playing a tournament on Father's Day weekend .Did you try to explain to her what Father's Day is all about. Maybe she has it confused with Mother's Day.
Very happy with my first A-Tier win, a win that wasn't won in my opinion but rather the competition didn't hang on as well as they would have liked in the Rain.
Guess playing in Japan in that monsoon has prepared me for the rain quite nicely......that was clearly the difference round. I played with QMS, Blizzard Katana, DX Classic Roc, and a Star Valk on all shots except 2 where I used a first run Star X-Cal.....
We have a team. How cool is it you cant even spell your own teammate Chris Newburg's name right. SUCKERS!Soon everyone will know how to spell his name. That's probably why Jordaan couldn't make it, he was afraid he would get matched with him. Oh, did I spell Jordan wrong, see what I did there.
I'm just wondering if they will even have a team...And if they do will it even matter, they are going to lose either way.
Reminder coming soon!That's very nice of you to remind us that the reminder is coming soon.
Some guy named Nailer here, I'm sure does too.
A dry disc is a "good" lie right Nailer?
How bout we keep this forum for West Side information, and you fools take your KU/MU BS to the tournament forum. http://kcfdc.org/forum/index.php?topic=10940.75
Personally, I like to leave the schools out of this, and consider this more like Hicks vs. Hillbillies, where the Hicks kick out a few more of your teeth again this year.
Oh and hey jteater, no need to agree with me on anything. Perfectly fine.That's kind of like saying I drove through Kentucky once, so when they win the tournament I should be real proud. I am also a MO Valley fan, and Northern Iowa and Wichita State should both have a good tournament.
Before you start calling us the losing side how about we actually, you know, play the tournament first. Feel free to ask your captain if you can face me in the singles match...I'll be happy to oblige.
I get to call you the losing side because you lost last year, and also because, well, you're the losing side. I also know as you have stated several times that it will all be different if you get to play, but I'm not so certain. I'm also certain that you can see I am 879 rated so won't make the team or get to play you. That makes it easy for me to talk trash, although I thought that's what the point was for all of this. Honestly, I realize the point is to get the best players together and have a fun weekend. I would be glad to play a round with you anytime.
P.S. My alma mater is Missouri State by the way and I have a good feeling the MO VALLEY conference is going to take care of business in the second round...just sayin'


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The Long and Short Goodbyes
I've missed blogging. It's a useful vehicle for me to journal my experiences and share them with my friends–known and unknown. This year, though, has challenged my ability to maintain my emotional equilibrium. No time more so than this past week. We had planned for the worst part of the inevitable with my mother-in-law. Hubs got to spend four solid days with her in person while she was still lucid. We spoke to her the last time last weekend, before the pain became too intense for her to handle without morphine and phone conversations became impossible. We were going about our lives, helping with the rescue process for a pregnant stray dog in Gayla's town. Then we got word that fellow writer and rescuer J.C. Montgomery died unexpectedly Wednesday morning. She was my first beta reader and writing cheerleader. I may have only known her via email, Twitter, and Facebook, but her support helped me become the person I am today and her loss without ever having been able to meet her in person was devastating.
Friday night, then, we got word that my mother-in-law's suffering had come to an end. We were grateful that she had been spared the ravages of a drawn-out illness. The grace and presence she brought to her final weeks were a clinic for the family on gratitude and living in the moment that I can only aspire to emulate. We were able to send her off surrounded by love and the knowledge that she was appreciated for herself in spite of the flaws of humanity that had sometimes created tumult within the family.
But now we are dealing with the end of an era and a chasm of emotion that is rolling us both under. I remember that Sharon was the first to call me by my married name at our wedding–when my head whipped around, her words matched her impish grin, "just testing." She worked for many years as a retail clerk and knew when all the sales were–but also how to apply coupons and employee discounts to the degree that she would show up periodically with the statement "I saw this and thought of you. It was only a couple dollars, so it's my gift to you." She learned all the best recipes for a full, Italian-style meal from her mother-in-law, and friends and family knew she could forever find another seat at the table and enough extra servings of food so everyone left with leftovers and a belly more full than they could have imagined possible. The hole she leaves behind will never be filled.
Interestingly, the Institute of Heartmath published an article this week about love as an advanced mode of intelligence that underlines the many positive aspects of having loved. And BarkPost reported on a study whose results indicate that dogs are awash in more oxytocin (the love hormone) than cats or humans.
So we still have each other, and the furbabies are all checking up on us regularly to remind us that the path through loss is to embrace the love we share. Our hearts are nonetheless having a hard time catching up with that knowledge, and our heads are fuzzy for lack of sleep.
I don't know that I'll be posting my normal list of goals this round–I'm already several weeks late–but I have to finish revisions on The Builders, finish Fire to Dragon, and write Dragon's Pursuit by the end of the year. So I continue to plod forward despite all the heartache, and wish that the news would quit finding more ways of bruising that already wounded organ. I'll be posting more regularly again, as well as pointing you to my ROW80 cohorts to encourage more mutual support and encouragement in my small sphere of web-based connections. And I'll ask that each of you reach out to those you love most and remind them of why they are special to you. Life is short, and we never know which conversation will be our last. My goal as an artist is to leave a conversation that can continue past my physical existence, but that also depends on others carrying their half of the relationship, so please, love and enjoy one another.
Death, Transition, and Soul Storms
I promised to check in, not knowing that the disaster news from last week would be ultimately personalized this week. Another family member suddenly faces the final months of her life in the face of a metastasized lung cancer diagnosis. On the same day we learned this, I found a baby bird who had fallen from his nest in the parking garage at work. In one of those moments of transference, I decided if I could save this naked creature who was struggling to right himself on the cold concrete, it would buy a little more time and comfort for hubs' mother. In the early evening hours, as I fed him worms and water against my own squeamishness (I'd forgotten live worms continue to twitch long after they have been chopped up), he seemed in good shape to pull through his ordeal.
His death overnight probably should not have been the shock it was. Nonetheless, it pulled the plug on my emotions, and I've just barely been weathering the storm since. We're trying to figure out how to plan for the impossible and find stability in an emotional earthquake.
Trying to gain what comfort we could from cuddling up together to watch a "light" movie, we decided on Kung Fu Panda. I don't know if it was because I was already feeling emotionally overwhelmed, but it was a much more profound movie than I had anticipated, with its own themes of death and transformation, and the message that we each of us are our own "special ingredient" to make us more powerful than we can anticipate.
It will take me a while to find comfort in that again, though I will be pushing myself to count my blessings in the manner of the quote I found scrolling past on Facebook and have shared here.
I also received my editor's feedback on The Builders, and will be heading out to a conference for work at the end of the month, so my blog may go dark for a while as we make the adjustments necessary to deal with our family's needs. In the meantime, I encourage you to keep up with the other ROW80 participants, and I'll check back in as time and energy allow.
Stay Strong
When news like today's, from both Orlando and LA, crosses the wire–notwithstanding the whitewashing claiming "worst massacre" that forgets Wounded Knee–it's easy to get lost in the tears for and anger against the misguided (non-)humans who think violence and hate solve anything. So I spent my day appreciating the beautiful sunshine, cool breezes, silly furbabies, and love of my family. They gave me thousands of reasons to smile and laugh, even while my emotions remain volatile because of the huge number of families now dealing with trauma and violence and death and the aftermath those bring to individual lives.
They too will have to find ways to stay strong, to find the reasons to smile and laugh. I'm not sure what has made this sickness of hate grow so strong in our nation, though I have quite a few ideas. Some relate to why voters are angry. Some to the inaction and obstructionism rampant in Congress. Some to the sexist roles of patriarchy encoded in pop culture. Some to the level of personal emotional paralysis that sets in when we are constantly offering thoughts and prayers, with no sense that anything will ever improve–regardless of how devastated we may be by the ongoing string of horrific events our news outlets insist on inundating us with.
Some of this is finding outlet in my fictional worlds. Re-reading passages from The Builders, where I was able to put some of my research about how horribly humans can treat each other, in the context of an alien love story, seems like the appropriate balance of hope, despair, confusion, and growth. I'm still waiting for my editor to send me my revision marching orders, though, so I know the story will evolve from where it currently stands.
Because of that I spent my evening re-formatting Dust to Blood for print. It's been on my to-do list for almost nine months now, and I knew it would be a pain. Luckily, the template and style sheets didn't need to be adjusted at all. While it took several hours, and I still need to do the same for Blood to Fire, finishing these tasks this week starts helping shift my story brain to consider how to proceed with Fire to Dragon.
I know I promised a longer post this week, but, honestly, too much of this is too exhausting. I want to go back to cuddling with hubs, hoping our little bubble of Light helps illuminate the rampant darkness in our world. In lieu of that, check out how my ROW80 companions are doing with their goals. May the coming week find you reasons to smile, and I will return again next week.
It seems harder and harder these days to find routine in even the smallest things. I missed my check-in last week because I was pushing hard to get my WIP in shape for my editor… and to finalize the cover for it. And to get hubs ready for his gigs this weekend. And all the other little things that go along with having Huskies and a day job (where we had a major quarterly review to prepare for and present to our customers) and other responsibilities.
At the moment I have about five minutes before I have to move on to my next task, but I also didn't want to miss two weeks of check-ins. So it was interesting to me to read that silence is significantly more important for our cognitive function than modern society acknowledges. I don't know that many people who are willing to sit with no radio, no TV, no conversation, and consider it an important element of rejuvenation in their daily lives.
I'll be glad when we're past these weeks of madness and can enjoy some silence together again. On a related note, I ran across an interesting list of life lessons that are also worth considering. Sometimes it's worth listening to the music around us (or creating it) as a way of pushing past the ordinary.
In the meantime, last night hubs helped commemorate David Bowie in his way (my way was way back in January), with his friends, The Slambovians. As Joziah notes in the video, they're playing together again tonight (part of why I'm keeping this short), but since I'm so proud of how far he's come, I'm sharing the video I took of it:
I'm still in the in-between space of my stories, waiting for edits and considering poking at Fire to Dragon when we have a little more time. So I'll check in more fulsomely next week to let you know how it goes. In the meantime, check out how my ROW80 cohorts are doing with their goals.
The Builders Cover Reveal
As you will have noticed if you've been following me in recent months, I've been working on my latest novel. The final draft is done and off to the editor, so now it's on to cover love… Gayla pulled off another great one–which was a difficult task, given an alien protagonist who was genetically engineered to wear the median skin tone of all earthlings. I have to tell you… There aren't many options for people of color as cover models. Even fewer that are interracial between two women. So we took off in the direction of the galaxies through which they travel. I'm very proud to share this with you:
Given where the story is in the editing process, I suspect my estimate of a July release remains reasonable. I'm really looking forward to sharing this one with everyone.
A friend was in town visiting the past few days, which is always both exhilarating and exhausting. In this case, it was another person going through marital woes, reinforcing my gratitude for the love and support I get from hubs. It's remarkable the number of people who struggle with their connection with their partners, where one or the other of the pair has a heart closed by fear, pain, or past wounds that make trust impossible. I suspect it's another symptom of one of the deep illnesses of our society that people aren't raised to understand the primacy of love–that it is the pivot around which health, vitality, creativity, and success revolve.
Maybe that's just my perspective, though.
But it is painful to witness friends struggle through the challenges that sap their capacity to participate fully in their own lives. At one point in our conversations this weekend, our friend said, "I feel like I'm participating in somebody else's movie."
I can empathize, having come late to the idea that I could do something for myself aside from work and maintain a connected home life. I didn't start writing long-form fiction until a little over five years ago, and it's its own revelation: I'm able to follow in the footsteps of some of my heroes by couching truths of a life fully considered in a framework that allows others to expand their horizons as well.
Focusing on writing does make it challenging to maintain that connection, which is why one of my goals always has to do with a date-night with hubs. This week we watched the next two episodes of Agents of Shield as well as The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. I loved the movie and am more lukewarm on the TV show. Marigold reunited a lot of the actors from Calendar Girls and played with the topic of what you DO when you reach "a certain age." Dame Maggie Smith killed it with her depiction of a deeply racist woman who unfolds in the Indian environment to share her vulnerability and grow beyond it. There were so many subtleties to the story I'd be happy to watch it again, and am looking forward to seeing the sequel.
On the writing front, I started the first editing passes, added structure, and am now awaiting my next batch of beta feedback for The Builders. I may actually be on schedule for a July release. We're also working on promotional materials for hubs' gig, which now has a flyer.
We've had even more rain here in the past week, which, combined with our visitor, mean our average steps are back below goal.
This week is also slated to include a lot of running around; I already know of two trips I need to take up to the home office in Maryland. So I'll keep this short and encourage you to see how the other ROW80ers are doing with their goals.
Growing Wings
It's been a challenging week for a number of my friends and me–on two separate continents, there are marriages on the rocks; one of my friends is beginning the process of moving across the country; a neighbor just lost her father unexpectedly; and I had to set aside time for a minor surgical procedure. All in the midst of an already heavy work-load week for me with meetings both downtown and in Maryland. I was emotionally wrung out by Friday afternoon.
Which meant it was a great time to cuddle up with hubs and watch the final Agent Carter and the newest season's first episode of Agents of Shield. Both of which made me wonder this weekend why ABC decided to cancel the former on such a cliffhanger, and how much of a commitment I want to make to the latter with some of the newest character developments. Having been in the writing (and improving my writing) process on a serious basis for almost six years now, I have less and less patience with cliffhangers. They strike me as a lazy way to try to trap readers and viewers into continuing with a story arc, when really the goal should be to have people so invested in the character(s) that fans return without that unnecessary prod.
We should be able to bring our curiosity to a story and have it rewarded. Our empathy should be engaged. And then I read an article in Psychology Today that reports American anti-intellectualism, while always a strong undercurrent, has become stronger in recent decades, as evidenced by fewer adults reading for pleasure, more obsession with entertainment, fashion, and other fads, and an increasing focus on mob rule. In an eerie parallel, another outlet reported on findings regarding reduced empathy in those who take NSAIDs. Given the almost automatic response to pain as reaching for palliatives of these kinds, and the number of people who suffer pain on a regular basis, there's a scary intersection in these two bits of news for me. This is not about how schools are ridiculously overloading grade school students with academic make-work, this is about finding the patience and tenderness to sit with pain and darkness and discovering how it can transform us.
Strangely, an old post about George Lucas' (and many other, more luminous thinkers') thoughts on the meaning of life popped up in my Twitter feed this week, too. As did this year's commencement speech at Sweet Briar College. Those both reflected some of the discussion we had in my LEAD class earlier in the week. My conclusion then and now: To the extent that anything drives me, it's the hope that I'm leaving the world a better place because of my existence in it. There's bits of Lucas' sense of interconnection (the "force", if you will, that ties us all together) as well as Busque's urging to embrace the Big Hairy Audacious Goals in that assessment, but what really resonates with me is the picture that floated across my Facebook stream that I've included in this week's post: It does take time alone, surrounded by darkness, to find how we can best take flight. Hold the Light for others who are struggling.
For myself, that means I'm done drafting The Builders. Finally. I'll be incorporating beta feedback this week before shipping it off for editing. Then I'll be moving on to the final installment of my Red Slaves trilogy. The record-breaking streak of days with rain has meant my daily average number of steps has fallen off again, and the dogs are spending two days a week at Affectionate to make sure they don't get too nutty in the house. That means KouKi is getting pretty good at agility, too. Hubs has been rehearsing heavily to prepare for opening for the Slambovians June 5th, so we're all wrapped up in projects for the moment.
I still have goals to reach, and suggest you check out how my ROW80 buddies are doing with theirs, so I'll be back again next week.
Doing Small Things
I'm not sure where the time flies these days, though I am sure the fact that this week kicked off with a migraine made any productivity a bonus. I still haven't finished the final chapter of The Builders, though I added almost 500 words to the WIP. I also read a post about story endings that finally gave me clarity about how I want to wrap things up. If I could just sit down without a to-do list a mile long, I could probably finish post-haste.
Another week, another try.
In the meantime, we've started building out hubs's new musician site, and we're slowly emerging to attack the new forest of grass that sprung up in the week and a half of rain we've "enjoyed". My phone indicates I've upped my average walking distance back over 2,000 steps per day, so there's more progress on the fitness front.
Aside from all that, I've been pondering the great divide between our living experience in the DC area versus the midwest and the southwest. Someday I'd love to return to where there are more cacti, mountains, and a regular view of the Milky Way, but until then, I'm going to have to pay attention that I don't become complacent about how wildly out-of-sync this area is from an income and cost-of-living perspective versus the rest of the country. I discovered a data aggregation site that includes tracking (based on publicly available numbers) about U.S. median income. From that starting point, I read an article about the persistent level of poverty, another about the things the middle class can no longer afford, and what wage stagnation looks like. This was all capped by a new chart put together by economist Pavlina Tcherneva that shows the dramatic inversion in financial gains for the middle class over the past 20 years. All of these things together make it obvious why zombie stories have become the popular new metaphor for our country: We've all been sprinting so hard to just keep pace, we have no energy to consider how we might actually get ahead.
It's crystallized my view that we need stories that have hope and some kind of happiness in them to start changing the mental narrative that traps us in the negative thought spiral that nothing can or will change. We are all invited daily to choose our perspective. One of the things I most appreciate about my path with hubs is his growth to a daily practice of gratitude–it's become one of the most powerful tools for both of us to be able to step outside the race and appreciate the peace we can enjoy together. So I'm sharing a useful post on tools that remind you to be thankful. I particularly like the quote that kicks off that post:
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. ~Thornton Wilder
So for this week, I will continue to do the small things I can with great love in my heart. I would encourage you to do so as well–and to check out how the other ROW80ers are doing.
Mayday, May Day
Coulda, shoulda, woulda week, here… mainly because both hubs and I were hit with a flu/cold combo that left us with precious little energy to do anything other than sleep and moan to each other about how horrible we felt. Once again I count my lucky stars that hubs has the tools (needles and herbs) at home so we're on the upswing again in less than a week.
On the other hand, we still made a quick appearance at our nephew's 15th birthday yesterday (OMG – I still remember him in diapers!), and did our part to support a niece who's doing everything she can to spread smiles and caring. In fact, I recommend everyone go visit the video she and her business partner posted for #letsredefinenormal. It's a good cause all around. Because Kipling had it right: our pack (our family) is our strength, and we strengthen our pack with our support.
From a writing perspective, my brain being mostly trapped in the haze of illness meant I somehow surprised myself with an additional 1,775 words for The Builders. That's the best I've done in a while, well over plan, and leaves me with just the final chapter to write. Because my head felt like it would explode yesterday anyway, I went back to the beginning and started editing. (I fell into word overuse with "just" this time…) I'm about halfway through that process and feeling good about getting the work to my editor on time at the end of the month.
On the exercise front… feeling winded going upstairs and downstairs is not the recipe for mile-long walks, though there was a three-quarter miler before we got sick, and a couple half-milers before the exhaustion truly felled us. Still some work to do to get back on track with that.
I'm grateful my productivity wasn't a complete loss last week, and am looking forward to "the end" (FINALLY!) this week. In the meantime, consider checking out how my ROW80 colleagues are doing with their goals, and I'll check in again next week.
Getting Through Life
We lost another great one this week; Prince figured regularly in the soundtrack of my teen and young adult years. My hubs, when he was a professional journalist and music critic, even got to interview him and review his concert in Milwaukee–which one of his hometown papers cited this week as part of its memorial. While, yes, many of his lyrics were frankly sexual, what sticks with me are the many times he was profound. He was the kind of prolific artist and generous talent others can only aspire to. And the BBC ran an article this week that confirms 2016 has truly sucked from the perspective of losing great artists.
It's sucked in other ways, too. On the home front, we've been having to do the adulting thing of installing new docs now that my brain has finally caught up with the fact that we're coming up on two years out from relocating almost 800 miles. This week that meant an MRI for me on Tuesday and eyes being dilated on Wednesday–both of which contributed, among other things, to that background sense of headache until I finally got to sleep it out yesterday. They also meant our tenuous walking habit back-slid. My phone estimates the low average for the week at 1,100 steps per day.
Then there was the series of adulting articles: Changes to how trad pubs are handling copyrights (read: rights grabs galore), an assessment of who's most likely to get divorced (hint: the American rate is actually less than 50%), and finally, the financial insecurity most Americans face. That last hit close to home for me; I would imagine it does for most of the people I know–and especially for all those who've chosen some form of the writer's path. Some of the realizations that author had contributed to my reasoning about not remaining a journalist a year after my newly minted bachelor's degree was completed. Even so, starting from a liberal arts background has made ending up where I am now (still by no means financially secure) a challenging journey that has included stints of a rice-and-beans existence.
Yet I'm happy with the choices I've made. I'm really happy I still get to write–even if it's not my full-time career or income at this point. This week I sold my 250th copy of my books and celebrated the fourth anniversary of publishing my first book. I'm making progress. I was able to add 1,371 words to The Builders, crossing the 47K word threshold. Not quite to goal, but given everything else going on, a decent enough effort. I'm considering a different path to release on this one. The Kindle Scout program was hotly debated over at The Passive Voice this week, and it sounds like, for those accepted into the program, there are quite a few upsides. The agreement (as opposed to the one outlined by Kristine Kathryn Rusch above) even allows for easy rights reversions. I'm not sure how much I want to push friends and followers to vote/nominate/generate the noise to make me attractive to the folks who run that show, but it would offer another possibility of raising awareness for my fiction should I choose that path. If any of my author friends have any experience that direction… chime in and let me know how it went.
Ultimately, I recognize happiness as a choice. One I'm invited to make daily, when I look at my hubs and our three furbabies. Everybody faces challenges and sadness at some point, and I've made the conscious decision to focus on the moments I'm able to share with those I love as opposed to anything else.
So I'll be back to pursuing my more regular pace of life this week, hoping that means I will get back on track with walking goals as well as pushing past done on this latest book. In the meantime, I'll be checking in on my ROW80 compadres, and recommend you do as well.


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