I’m guessing the Ecuadorian has retired, though, possibly with a shoulder strain of his own if you kept going back to have him shine your boots since 2008!
I’m sorry to read of your fall and shoulder injury, Ann. And that was 6 months ago, and no blog since? so I do hope your accident hasn’t still plagued you. My own writing is heavily dependent on my reading, I think, because I make notes on anything I read – – if not noteworthy, I stop reading the book. The notes may be for future reference if it looks like it might fit into an ongoing project, or else a note on the writing itself if instructive. Y’know, just brief handwritten page-referenced notes I then tuck into the book before shelving and which I may also type onto an ongoing project at the same time. Always looking to learn. And as promised in my earlier Comment to the first blog of yours that I just read so belatedly, on your shoeshine, I ask, Are you still getting your boots shined at airports? I’m guessing the Ecuadorian has retired, though, possibly with a shoulder strain of his own if you kept going back to have him shine your boots since 2008!