i had a good time with my father-in-law, who was here over the weekend. surprisingly the whole episode of yevgeny and vlad the impaler dominated the news and we ended up talking a lot about what might happen.

of course nobody has a clue what might happen. yevgeny prikoshin is unpredictable if anything and it would probably be in his best interests to hide. vlad the impaler is known to simply have all opponents killed. yevgeny can't be an opponent and hope to live. he also can't keep fighting under the present conditions. the russian army probably needed the support but too bad. they are mostly demoralized because the world is sick of their bullying, and by invading a country they've turned the world against them.

but why should anyone listen to me? i find myself often with a shallow view of current events if only because i'm so preoccupied with my own writing, that i quit reading current events relatively quickly in the morning on my way to doing my writing thing. today i finally went swimming; i have to watch it or i'll gain unacceptable weight hanging around talking to in-laws. but alarming developments in the ukraine are everyone's business.

. i've had some success with the new book of plays and i like checking my stats these days because every once in a while, there's a sale up there. i haven't really peddled to every corner of the quaker universe but i figure it's only a matter of time before people know.

kids are at camp. time to crank up the postcard-writing machine.