BRIBERY (& nothing about OC)

               In the dead of an Illinois winter: sabbatical at Northwestern U.  Yes, I was missing a tooth.
               She loved me anyway.                                       

Did you know that I can “track” the number of pages read on my blog? That is, I can tell how many times each entry has been looked at, although I can’t tell who did the looking.  These statistics tell me one very important fact – you are looking at my blog mainly to see pictures of my beautiful wife.  Oh, sure, you might read the accompanying text, but it’s mainly Linda you want to see.  I forgive you.  I feel the same myself.

The reason I know this is that the entry LINDA ON HER WEDDING DAY has three times as many “hits” as the next highest entries.  Also, the ones with no pictures - only text - are at the bottom of the list.  I will try to salve my wounded pride and push on.

So, I am going to try to bribe you.  It seems that you want to see pictures of Linda on her wedding day.  I have three more.  (Incidentally, I’m in them, too.)  I plan to use them on anniversaries.  However, to drum up enthusiasm I promise to post the best picture of all – just as soon as I have a dozen or so “Followers” for the new version of the blog, “FIGHT BACK against OVARIAN CANCER” (you remember, WWW.QUILTCUTIE.BLOGSPOT.COM).  So far I have no followers at all (three with the old blog.)  Maybe Carolyn will add a “Comment” to this posting explaining how it is done.  To get the picture you really only need nine, ‘cause I plan to “Follow”, too.  That way I can be alerted whenever anybody posts a “Comment”.

My faithful editor and research assistant Dick Ingwall has pointed me to an interesting article in the New Yorker which I will be writing about in a few days.  I am headed back to Bellingham next week.