1. Debbie and I hosted family dinner. With Christy, Carol, and Paul's approval, we served dinner at three o'clock.
Over the winter, Debbie had made pans of enchilada casserole and we served the last one today. Carol and Paul brought tortilla chips and sour cream and salsa, Christy brought sparkling water, I made a pot of lime rice, and Debbie rounded out our meal with a vegetable plate, a cabbage salad, and frozen lime juice bars for dessert.
2. We talked about a lot of subjects, including Debbie's news that she'll be going to New York and Virginia for three weeks, leaving mid-June, to see Adrienne's family and then Molly's. She'll also look after our grandchildren in both places while Josh and Adrienne are at work and when Molly and Hiram go away for a couple of nights to celebrate Hiram's birthday.
I will happily tend to things here in Kellogg and keep Copper and Gibbs company. Ha! I guess they'll keep me company, too!
3. I mentioned in my blog post yesterday that I fell asleep before the segment of the March 28th episode of This American Life entitled, "The Museum of Now" ended. I finished listening to the segment after dinner. In it, a thirty-seven year old PhD student at Columbia from India tells the story of having her visa suddenly revoked and of repeated visits ICE made to her apartment and what she did in response to these sudden and bewildering developments over a five day period, including being dropped as a student, losing her teaching job, and losing her university housing.
Her name is Ranjani Srinivasan.
If you'd like to hear her story, as she and her roommate tell it to This American Life, here's a link: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/857/museum-of-now/exhibit-two-10
If you put her name in a search engine, you can read what other outlets have reported.
I'm posting this information because one reader of my blog asked for it.
I came across this story accidentally when it woke me up while sleeping Saturday night. I had yearned to listen to This American Life again after not having tuned in for years. I went to Spotify, clicked play, and episodes just started playing. I fell asleep, woke up periodically to listen to bits and pieces of the podcast as it moved from one episode to another. But, I stayed awake for much of the episode about Ranjan Srinivasan, but fell asleep before the story ended. Her story unsettled and intrigued me and I finished listening to it today.
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