Snow today on the ridge--like Christmas; rain in town--almost spring.

Check out the new map on the blog and the newsreels. Allison at the library walked me through some of the blogspot gadgets. Pretty nifty.

Have been reading Africa--altered states, ordinary miracles by Dowden. He added another strand to my understanding of the genocide in Rwanda, adding to Kapuscinski's no-nonsense chapter in In the Shadow of the Sun and Diamond's environmentally organized one in Collapse. The stories are the same, but composed from different strands, viewed from different points, emphasizing different underlying problems. All, however, support Hannah Arendt: Evil is banal.

Tuesday afternoon.
It is not quite spring in south central Montana and winter promises its recently recurring coda of another bout of snow for tomorrow. A leaden sky seconds the prediction. The road is muddy, but the paths in the wood alternate between slushy snow and a soft mat of wet pine needles .

The enforced sheltering makes it easy to stay inside and continue writing e-mails to let people know that A Leg to Stand On has been published and is available from www.iuniverse.com. Finallyhaving a copy of the book has made it seem more real. One of my writing friends ended her congratulatory reply with the command to start writing the next book. Good idea.

Two new followers arrived: Bob Schmitt. Bob is the webmaster at SIGN and has been promoting A Leg to Stand On through his facebook. I must come public and say that I made a very stupid error in the book and left off the final "t" in his surname. Again, my apologies.

Pat is a cooking friend, one of the Divine Divas. She is an engineer and has been supportive of the book with advice.

Welcome to you both.
--Michelle