Family

My mother wants my sister and me to come up and see her to 'make arrangements.' It seems kind of morbid but I guess she's just being practical; though she's in good health, she is getting up there. And of course she's trying to do a little arm-twisting to get us to actually visit her. My sister is being (understandably) reticent, so I guess I'm on my own. Maybe in the fall when it's not so hot--my mother does not have A/C, and the Pittsburgh area can get almost as unbearable as DC in the summer.

Meanwhile, I joined facebook a week or so ago, and guess who I found: a nephew (well, half-nephew, son of an older half brother) who just graduated from college (Architecture!) and just happens to be visiting a friend in DC right now. He's interested in meeting. I'd kind of like to, but it would be a little weird... I haven't even spoken to his father in like 20 years, not because we 'aren't speaking' but because we were never close. I have 2 half-brothers from my father's first marriage and another, younger one from his third. The older ones especially we rarely saw except when we had a visit that coincided. Ah, well.