Dear LCT Friends:

I haven't been here much lately...and unfortunately it's because Tom is ill.

He's been diagnosed with small lung cancer - a VERY bad kind and we have just finished with his first course of treatment - we now have two weeks off and then he goes again.

I have to laugh when I use the plural pronoun, but any of you who have been through this ordeal know that it is not a solitary journey - I've observed that in an oncology clinic most folks comes in twos - like the ark - hoping for survival.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to be melodramatic, we just hope we can find some more time and a modicum of comfort. As Tom so sagely predicts, we are all dieing of something.

So if you can spare a prayer for him...many thanks, right now that's really our best hope.

Many thanks,