Margie

…for "less people."

…en.

…ll, with the oxygen hissing. Her hands are cold and her feet are warm, which Judy says is the wrong way round. She woke about eleven and looked at me for a while and said, "Margaret. You have your coat on. Are you coming or going?" I said I was staying. She said, "Well, take it off, then." That is the most she said…

ENDED. Ray came off April 30, 2018, and I did March 31, 2020, when our Medicare started. Not valid for anything now.

…five, and the waiting room so full that people stood in the parking lot. Twenty-nine years. He told R. the truth about his sugar, and sat with me in the spring of 2014 and did not press. When my turn came in the line I found I had prepared nothing. He took my hand and said, "Margaret. Take your calcium." He is going…

Hospital (Part A) and Medical (Part B) both effective 04-01-2020. The paper card is in the bedroom safe; I carry a photocopy.

Effective 04-01-2020. $196.40 a month in 2026, billed quarterly with Ray's. Pays what Medicare leaves, after I pay the Part B deductible myself.

$31.20 a month in 2026, taken out of my Social Security. Heron Lane Pharmacy is in network.

One card for both of us. $706.80 a year. Two cleanings each, crowns at 50%, $1,500 a year maximum each.

…pounds fourteen. They will call her June. We came home from the family week on Friday (ten of us this year; Kate could hardly have come), and at half past six this morning I was upstairs at the Bernina, sewing the binding on this child's quilt, which I had sworn would be finished before she was. The telephone was on…

…4:12 in the morning, Portland time. 6 lb 14 oz. To be called June. Her quilt: finished as of this morning. No. 45. Forty-one by fifty-one. A plain cream centre, and juniper sprigs appliquéd all the way round the border, eighteen of them. It goes to Portland in my suitcase on August 1.

…wn in Lorraine's chair at Ruth's, looked round, and said, "I think I've taken somebody's place." Helen said yes, and that she was welcome to it. Eleven new windows at the cabin as of Friday, every one but the kitchen's. The old ones were 1958, single glass with a storm, and rattled in a west wind. These do not rattl…

The code is texted to my mobile.

…fter. Jan. 3 - "Demon Copperhead" - Marlene's Feb. 7 - "Foster" - Connie's (Lorraine's last meeting) March 7 - "Trust" - Ellie's April 4 - "The Marriage Portrait" - Nan's May 2 - "84, Charing Cross Road" - mine. Lorraine's favourite, ten days after she died. June 6 - "Hello Beautiful" - Dee's August 1 - "I Have Some…

Jan. 2 - "North Woods" - Margie's Feb. 6 - "The Berry Pickers" - Connie's (I was in Alabama) March 5 - "Absolution" - Marlene's April 2 - "The Women" - Ruth's May 7 - "James" - mine June 4 - "Table for Two" - Dee's August 6 - "Long Island" - Nan's Sept. 3 - "The God of the Woods" - Ellie's Oct. 1 - "Sandwich" - Helen'…

August 5 - "Wild Dark Shore" - Ellie's Sept. 2 - "Flashlight" - Margie's Oct. 7 - "Buckeye" - Helen's Nov. 4 - "Heart the Lover" - Nan's Dec. 2 - cookie exchange - MINE Two of those are not published yet. Naomi will order when she can.

…in the shop (464 pages) and moved that we read "So Far Gone" instead, which is 272. Carried, six to three. So: September 2, "So Far Gone," at Margie's. Naomi has changed the order.

Jan. 7 - "Orbital" - Marlene's Feb. 4 - "Time of the Child" - Nan's (I was in Alabama) March 4 - "The Frozen River" - Connie's April 1 - "Three Days in June" - Ruth's May 6 - "Stone Yard Devotional" - mine June 3 - "The Correspondent" - Dee's August 5 - "Wild Dark Shore" - Ellie's Sept. 2 - "So Far Gone" - Margie's Oc…

Jan. 6 - "What We Can Know" - Connie's Feb. 3 - "Flesh" - Marlene's (I was in Alabama) March 3 - "The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny" - Ellie's (670 pages) April 7 - "My Ántonia" - Ruth's (my suggestion) May 5 - "The Emperor of Gladness" - Margie's June 2 - "Raising Hare" - Dee's August 4 - "The Antidote" - Nan's Sept.…