Mid-May Mix

It has been months since Padre was laid to rest, with nothing but a metal marker and (later) a concrete platform to mark his resting place. Now, finally, he gets a tombstone. And what a tombstone! It's made out of dark grey granite and shaped like a bench. Madre took my sister the editor there and tried out the tombstone by sitting on it.

It is a funny thing about a cotter pin, a small piece of metal, rounded on one side, flat on the other. If you do not put it in the slot on each end of axis of the rotary blades of my older pushreel lawn mower, the blades do not turn. This always happens every time I take off the wheels of the pushreel to clean and oil the metal inside. Well, now that I fixed that, I can mow with the old thing again.

The new Caitlin Clarke Page is now online. Visit it and see what you think about it. I got the idea of writing summaries of the articles about Ms. Clarke; they will server as substitutes for the articles themselves. I may also write a summary of the reviews of the New York plays done by Ms. Clarke early in her career (1979-1985).