If it's too soon to call this a happy ending, howzabout a happy chapter?
I'm a fan of SAIL contributor Margie Smith, who shed a life in television news to sail and travel and then diverted to deal with a bout of a decent-odds variety of cancer. She's been writing about all the above at Cancer Is Hilarious, wherein we've discovered that some aspects are more hilarious than others.
But, here's an entry that makes my day. Notice date and time . . .
August 15, 12:45 p.m.Philadelphia
Last Day of Radiation
August 16, 12:45 p.m.
Cape Cod
Catboat Regatta Start Line
Margie, I like your priorities.
Meanwhile on the other side of the globe
Olympic sailing is wrapped and done with joy here and disappointments there and plenty to stew about going forward.
Before we leave our China-mind entirely, and at the risk of a touch of bad karma, I have to share some pics that have been going around the Net. They originate at engrish.com, which collects submissions from wherever . . .
I'm skipping the scatological ones, even though they're funnier.
Go fish—Kimball
