Another week begins and they all have promise. This is spring and truly so now since the weather has finally warmed...and, I hope, my heart will soon. I have felt a distant leaden presence, not quite foreboding, more like that feeling you get when you think you might throw up but you don't really feel all that bad. There are few things that make me happy in the news these days, everything I hear and see makes me start to think of ways to move my family out of harms way...

The problem with having a large extended family is that the issues around somehow protecting them all from harm multiply geometrically...can I convince them to move to some part of the country least likely to get hit? Would they agree to go? Does such a place even exist?

I gravitate towards the far northeast these days. Maine, the Canadian Maritimes...cold but clear.