Rick,

This is a temporary page, with a temporary link from my home-page.

It isn't much, is just two apologies and an iou:

First a minor apology for mentioning my sister, because I knew you hadn't read my email — and knew there wouldn't be much reason to read it during a super-busy book tour — so I should have been thinking “there is no way that Rick could know anything about her.”  (and her letters)

Then a major apology for saying too much – by “comparing our lives” – because doing this was foolish.  Instead I should have said only what I originally had planned to say, that I highly respect what you have done and are doing.

And an iou for the message I said you would see by clicking the link for "traveling" in my homepage.  Tonight I began writing a message, but wasn't sure what I wanted to say, or how.  So instead I'll wait and do it later, sometime before Monday when you're back in Washington.