Not exactly. I still won’t be writing much, and I’m not reading anything current. Rereading Louis L’Amour and Dick Francis mostly. You shouldn’t hold your breathe for a reply to your e-mail either, it won’t be soon coming.

I’m sure the e-mail notes and e-cards I’ve been receiving are very nice, but I’m not reading them.  As I mentioned, I’m taking time off. I’m not reading e-mail, I’m not reading blogs, I’m just watching the scenery go by. Life’s too short to spend it all behind a computer, and I’d hate to miss out on the good part.

Disabled Iraqi children get wheelchairs, big smiles - CNN.com

Blauser points to one of his favorite photographs, of a father carrying his son in his arms, an endless desert road behind him. He had carried his son more than 6 miles to get a wheelchair. “In August 2006 we had a distribution in northern Iraq,” Blauser remembered. “We watched him [the father] come forward, and people rushed to take the boy from his arms. And he said, ‘No, I’ve been carrying this child all my life. I can carry him the last 100 yards to receive his wheelchair.’ ” - Brad Blauser