Archive for the ‘In Memory’ Category
Another birthday is here and I’m catching up on you age-wise. 😦
Each year, the non-birthday-girl would be planning and plotting online, as well as real-life, surprises. We had hand-made wrapping paper and all sorts of exotic and non-exotic gifts. Right now, I’m wearing a cozy robe from a zillion years ago.
Way back in 1998, when I was learning web design, I posted a whole mini-site for that birthday. Unfortunately, html code no longer allows for the music to play, but I had carefully thought out tunes for each day. The page titles aren’t showing, either.
- The main page title was “Happy Millenium Birthday, Alice!” and played a simple Happy Birthday
- The theme to Perry Mason aka “Peri MasonPause” on the “Flora” page
- the “Born” page had the theme to Alice’s Restaurant with no special title
- the “Robert Redford” page had The Way We Were. The title was “To Alice, from Bob (with lust)”
- the “musician and his music” page was Bach’s Toccata and Fugue and the title was “Happy Bachday, Alice!”
- the “flowers” page was The Rose with no special title
See that site here: http://www.oconnormusic.org/aliceBD/birthday.htm
The last page of that site was particularly important. I’d emailed all of Alice’s past guest speakers and other PS members and compiled this list of great wishes: http://www.oconnormusic.org/aliceBD/guests.htm
We’d be up at 12:01 am, posting wishes, decorating message boards and doing the final touches for websites.
In 2003, I’d apparently posted a picture of Flora Dora (again!) and Alice responded:
MaryO, what can I say other than that it was a wonderful and beautiful surprise to see my guest announcement area turned into a beautiful, sparkling birthday greeting — and Flora Dora, Power Surge’s mascot and RR — but especially your beautiful wishes.
I responded:
After all these years, it’s getting harder and harder to come up with new ideas for how to do an online surprise. There have been a variety of different things for different birthdays, but I have to keep you guessing I hope that you don’t mind that I’m holding the announcement area hostage for a little longer.
I’m sure that many of the newer people don’t know who Flora Dora is, but she’s an essential part of Power Surge so she have to be included somehow – kinda like inviting your maiden aunt to Thanksgiving 🙂 Of course, RR is welcome – anytime! I’m so glad that I could make an online surprise for you again this year – maybe I should start planning for NEXT year already.
I hope we share many more birthdays together as the close friends we’ve become over the years.
On a more serious side, you’re very welcome for the “beautiful wishes”. Sometimes, words fail me and I don’t do things justice, but you and Power Surge have changed my life in so many ways that go beyond “simple” menopause issues. When I first came to Power Surge on AOL, I was a confirmed lurker, reading only, never posting.
The first chat I tried to hide out until you asked me a question, encouraging me to talk. This was all so scary for me, communicating with others – online or off. I can say with confidence, that I’m no longer a lurker on the boards and in the chats like I was, and that was all your doing. Thanks so much for that!
Now I just have to work on my real life lurkership! The knowlege I got here in Power Surge, even when I was lurking, helped me so much with my menopause, my symptoms, my everyday life. Like most everyone else, I learned about the way to help my meno symptoms and I’m so thankful of that, that I could be feeling better.
When my husband was very sick, close to death, my first December in PS, I wouldn’t post, but I would come home from the hospital and read everything that other people were posting. It seemed so great to me, and it was such a comfort to me to know that everyone was out there. I recognized people’s names and enjoyed “listening” to the banter and chatter, and that gave me something other than the hospital and my own worries to think about. No matter what the time of day was, I could always read and see that things were ok with the world, and know that we were going to survive this. What a wonderful community Power Surge is!
Things have come along way since then. My husband made it, thanks to a skilled surgeon and a LOT of prayer. And I gradually changed, too. I’m obviously not afraid to post anymore, or go to chats, and I really have you to thank for that. Over the years there have been many changes, the boards have moved, been started again from scratch, updated, all kinds of things, as have the chats, but one thing remains clear and unchanged – and that Power Surge isn’t just another “website”. It is a true community for women in midlife, something we can gain daily strength from. (sorry about the preposition!)
And it’s all because of you, Dearest Alice Stamm. Thank you so much, and I hope it was a wonderful birthday – you deserve the very best!
Hugs and thanks from the bottom of my heart! Mary
From the message boards in 2004:
From 2005:
We have decided to let you accept the responsibilities of a 6 year old again.
If you want to sail sticks across a fresh mud puddle and make ripples with rocks, that’s great.
If you want to think M&Ms are better than money, because you can eat them, they are calorie-free (today only!).
If you want to lie under a big Oak tree next summer and run a lemonade stand with your friends (and fellow Surgettes) on a hot summers day, we’ll give you a voucher.
That summer-time voucher is also good for walking on the beach and thinking of the sand between your toes and the prettiest seashell you can find. Or you can spend the afternoon climbing trees and riding your bike.
We are returning you to a time when life was simple. When all you knew were colors, addition tables and simple nursery rhymes. But that didn’t bother you, because you didn’t know what you didn’t know and you didn’t care. When all you knew was to be happy because you didn’t know all the things that should make you worried and upset.
You’re going to go to school and have snack time, recess, gym and field trips.
You’ll be so happy, nothing will make you upset.
We’re going to let you think that the world is fair. That everyone in it is honest and good…that anything is possible.
For today, you’re going to be oblivious to the complexity of life and be overly excited by little things once again, returned to the days when reading was fun.
No worries about time, bills, websites that crash, guest chats where the guest can’t get in, excess email, time….No more worry about computer crashes, mountains of paperwork, depressing news, aches, pains, doctor visits or illness.
We’re going to help you believe in the power of smiles, hugs, a kind word, truth, justice, peace, health, dreams, the imagination, mankind and making angels in the snow.
You’re going to be 6 again, for today (and probably some of us will want to join you!). From all of us…
QUOTE (Dearest @ Nov 10 2005, 09:23 AM)
Thank you all for your warm and wonderful birthday wishes.
A very special thank you to my friend, MaryO, for the beautiful greeting, for including Power Surge’s mascot, Flora Dora at the top of the screen — and especially for allowing me to be six again even if only for a day 🙂
And I said:
You know, you can always apply for an extension of the day being 6. Click here to apply.
Glad you had a great birthday and much-needed vacation. If you want to extend either of those, please let me know and I’ll see if I can locate an extension for either of those.
Happy Post-Birthday!
In 2006, Alice said:
Thank you ALL for your wonderful birthday wishes and beautiful sentiments about how much Power Surge means to and has done for you. That makes all the years of work that’s gone into this “community” worthwhile (with, perhaps, the exception of dealing with HACKERSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!) 🙂
I don’t know some of you very well. Others I know well and have established lovely friendships with. You know who you are. Thank you, too, for your beautiful flowers, birthday cards, online greetings, etc.
And thank you, my dear friend, MaryO, for starting this topic and for being the sister I never had 🙂 I’m so glad I impulsively decided to give myself a birthday present last month and called saying, “C’mon, let’s go to see Streisand!!” That was the highlight of my/our year. To be sitting so close to her, and SO close to and watching people mingle like: Bill and Hillary Clinton, Lauren Bacall, James Brolin, Katie Couric, Stephen Sondheim, Rosie O’Donnell, Sting, Hugh Jackman, Steven Spielberg, Regis and Joy Philbin, Sara Jessica Parker — and many, many others.
It was like the first time we met a few years ago and stopped into a restaurant only to find a few minutes later that Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazzara, Peter Bogdonovich, Carol Kane and others, whose names elude me at the moment, came in and sat at the table next to us. Knowing me, I had to go over and talk to them, especially Gena Rowlands, who’s still beautiful and elegant and was so gracious.
The past few years, starting with my emergency surgery and all the ensuing complications, my mom’s fall down the stairs and subsequent need for constant care, my dad passing away only four months later and my own ongoing and confusing health issues — too much stress.
The past few months have been better — we’ve both been through a LOT this year especially!
Special thanks to those of you who’ve generously given donations (some of you even more than once) to the site to help defray some of the expenses of running it.
I’m grateful to be alive and very proud of Power Surge and all the women (and men) it’s helped over the years plus all the wonderful women who participate in it 🙂
Alice
And I responded:
To be sitting so close to her…
You mean me…or Barbra? LOL
It was so amazing how that trip worked out. It was the most spontaneous thing I had ever done.
My son was home from grad school for “fall break” formerly known as Columbus Day weekend. He was flying back on Wednesday, through JFK.
After Alice got the tickets for Barbra on Monday (amazing in itself), I was able to get on Michael’s flight to JFK – only one trip to the airport! The flight number was the same as Alice’s street address. Do I hear Twilight Zone music?
What a great birthday gift you got for yourself – thank you so much for sharing it with me 🙂
Happy post-birthday!
From 2007
The top header on the boards:
Followed by
And Alice said…
Firstly, {{{{{MaryO}}}}, my old and dear friend, thank you for starting this topic and for the beautifully creative graphic and sentiments you made for my birthday. I don’t have to tell you what your friendship has meant to me all these years (you already know). Hugs!
Thank you all for your good wishes. Someone wrote to me, “I hope you had a peaceful birthday.” That’s exactly what it was . . . peaceful.
Thank you also for your kind words about Power Surge. It’s been a labor of love for 14 years . . . about to start its 15th year Feb. 3rd, 2008. I have a pretty good idea how many women’s lives have been impacted by this “community.” In all these years, including the start-up years on America Online, I’ve probably posted in the area of 100,000 messages on the numerous PS message boards. I can’t post as much as I used to any longer for many reasons, but I’m always working in the background to maintain this site that’s become a tremendous source of information and haven of support for all the visitors who come to it every day.
What started out as a blank page in an HTML editor has grown to exactly what I’d planned. I’m very proud of every facet of Power Surge including this message board.
Finally, thank you to all those who have made donations to Power Surge. I have thanked each and every one of you individually. Your donations have been helpful in defraying some of the ever-increasing costs involved with running Power Surge.
Again, thank you.
Best,
Dearest
Then, 2008
And that’s enough for this year. I have to save some out 🙂
~~~
So, it’s 15 years since I made that first silly website. I’m still scrambling to get something to post by 12:01 am for your birthday.
I still can’t believe that you won’t be reading this later, calling me when UPS / amazon / FEDex arrives with gifts so we can open them “together”.
We’ve said it once, we’ve said it dozens of times. Even when we’re apart we’re
“Grief can destroy you –or focus you. You can decide a relationship was all for nothing if it had to end in death, and you alone. OR you can realize that every moment of it had more meaning than you dared to recognize at the time, so much meaning it scared you, so you just lived, just took for granted the love and laughter of each day, and didn’t allow yourself to consider the sacredness of it.
But when it’s over and you’re alone, you begin to see that it wasn’t just a movie and a dinner together, not just watching sunsets together, not just scrubbing a floor or washing dishes together or worrying over a high electric bill. It was everything; it was the why of life, every event and precious moment of it. The answer to the mystery of existence is the love you shared sometimes so imperfectly, and when the loss wakes you to the deeper beauty of it, to the sanctity of it, you can’t get off your knees for a long time, you’re driven to your knees not by the weight of the loss but by gratitude for what preceded the loss.
And the ache is always there, but one day not the emptiness, because to nurture the emptiness, to take solace in it, is to disrespect the gift of life.”
~Dean Koontz, Odd Hours
I had posted earlier about the first part of the garden, which was suggested my my pastor. He saw the post on Facebook and thought it was great that I followed through.
We talked a bit about Alice’s Garden at the last church staff meeting and someone mentioned a “Butterfly Bush”. I’d never heard of that but it sounded interesting.
A week ago today we were at a CD release party for that same pastor’s band (JC Reigns) and one of the staff members had bought me a butterfly bush that very day. It was still in Joyce’s car so we brought it home.
Tom spent part of the afternoon making a new place for this plant. Right now, there is one flower on it.
Here’s Tom planting it, and in its new home next to a gold dust croton.
And, so I don’t forget…
Want a guaranteed butterfly and hummingbird magnet? Or, one of the most fragrant of shrubs? Plant a buddleia (butterfly bush).
This fast-growing, deciduous shrub with long, arching shoots will reach heights of 6 to 8 feet. Although the green leaves add a welcome bit of color to any landscape, it is the masses of blossoms—long, seductively spiked trusses—that are special. From summer to autumn, the butterfly bush bears dense panicles, 12 inches or more long, that fill the air with a fruity scent.
At its northern limits, the shrubs can die back, sometimes all the way to the ground. No matter. Butterfly bush is vigorous and undemanding and will send up new shoots, given a sunny location and average garden soil.
Note: Butterfly bush can be an invasive species in some areas; check with your local cooperative extension before planting.
Planting
- Buddleias need full sun and fertile, well-drained soil.
- Plant in spring or fall.
- Loosen the soil, mix in compost, and dig a hole twice the diameter of the plant container.
- When placing the plant in the hole, the top of the rootball should be level with the soil surface
- Space plants 5 to 10 feet apart, depending on the variety.
- Water thoroughly.
Care
- Water freely when in growth and sparingly otherwise. In the summer, water if rainfall is less than 1 inch per week.
- Avoid fertilizing butterfly bush; too much fertility supports leaf growth over flower production.
- Remove spent flower spikes to encourage new shoots and flower buds.
- Each spring, apply a thin layer of compost and mulch to retain moisture and control weeds.
- In cold Northern climates, spread mulch up to 6 inches deep around the trunk to nurture it through the winter.
- Buddleias are very late to break dormancy, so don’t be in a hurry to assess winter damage.
- The bush should bloom abundantly even in its first year. In warmer climates, the bushes will grow into trees and develop rugged trunks that peel; peeling is normal.
- In the northern limit of their range, they behave as herbaceous perennials, dying back to the root in cold winters.
- Since they bloom on new wood, even if there is no die-back, cut them back to the ground every spring. Even where winters are mild enough for the stems to survive, prune severely to stimulate abundant growth on which flowers are borne.
From http://www.almanac.com/plant/butterfly-bush
Love you, Alice!
Soon after Alice died, I went to talk to my pastor. He suggested that I grow a corner or part of a garden in Alice’s memory.
There is no way I can kneel or get down on the ground to tend to something like this so we decided on a large planter on a rolling platform so it can be wherever the sun is.
This is on the deck, next to my reading chair.
We have had a lot of rain lately – I’m not sure what it’s going to do to the 100 bulbs under the surface, waiting to bloom at different times next spring, summer and fall.
As the seasons change, I hope to be able to share beautiful flowers each week.
I just posted this on the message board in response to “A Dearest Post I Treasure“.
I just listened to http://www.power-surge.com/bio.htm again, and reread the words.
Dearest was such a special person. When I first learned that she had died, I went around the website collecting things like the bio page. I couldn’t save it with the sound for some reason, so I played it and recorded it with my phone so I could listen to her talking whenever I wanted.
That page has some cleanup to do. The header is a bit off. I’ll get to it – sometime.
But go and read the words with your speakers turned up.
You’ll be glad you did!
- Missing You (power-surge.co)
- From Tinks (power-surge.co)
I too am sorry to learn that we lost Dearest, a true visionary. I too would like to see her work preserved and maintained. I also want to pledge to donate. All I ask is that the means for donating be secure.
This site has helped me through some tough and scary times. The women here are Angels.
Please keep us posted and let us know how we can help.
Thank you for all that you are currently doing to maintain the site.
Peace and love to you Mary and my PS sisters.
I will add to this as more comments are shared.
A Power-Surge Sister
Sep 5, 2013 11:51 AM
Alice, I want to thank you for everything you did for so many of us. You saved our lives. We love you.
A Power-Surge Sister
Sep 5, 2013 03:09 PM
Alice…Just wanted to Thank You for all you have done for me and for thousands of other women in the world….you and your PowerSurge website saved so many lives….and helped so many women when we were in the deepest, darkest place in our lives…you leave behind a GREAT legacy….and because of you & powersurge…so many woman have come thru to the other side of that long tunnel with a re-newed wisdom in their souls…and thru the site we have made many lifelong friends along the way…GodSpeed My Sister and Chief Bottle Washer
Karen
Oct 5, 2013 07:29 AM
My sincerest condolences to your family. I will be forever grateful for the Power Surge website and you. It helped me cope with an extremely difficult. God bless you Alice.
Wendy
Oct 5, 2013 08:23 AM
I am very saddened to hear of Alice’s passing. Like many women, I don’t know what I would have done without her. Alice not only provided thousands of women help and support through her website, she personally supported me through chats and phone calls. Alice, so many will miss you
PS member
Oct 5, 2013 08:52 AM
I am very sadden to learn of Alice passing. She was such an inspiration for thousands of women and will be missed. Thank you Alice for all the help and support, I would not make it through the passage without Power Surge! My sincerest condolences to your family. RIP Dearest.
Diane Emerson
Oct 5, 2013 09:03 AM
Thank you for your extraordinary effort to help others. What an enormous impact you have had on countless women. Your kindness and compassion is contagious. It is a legacy that will continue to bless. I am eternally grateful for the blessing of Alice Stamm. God bless your family.
bev
Oct 5, 2013 09:28 AM
I am so sad to hear of Alice’s passing. She was a true warrior in the fight for women’s physical and mental health during the middle years. Alice was held in the highest esteem, and she will be missed greatly. Sincerely, Another Power Surge Sister
A P-S Sister in Virginia
Oct 5, 2013 10:15 AM
So very sad to hear of Alice’s passing. She has had a huge helping impact on women all over this world and it will never be forgotten. My prayers to her family.
Lisa Ashton
Oct 5, 2013 10:20 AM
A PS sister from RI.
So sad to hear of Alice’s passing..she gave so much love, support and understanding to what we are all going through…a true angel..
My prayers are with you
PS……Canada
Oct 5, 2013 10:46 AM
Alice, I too like to thank you for all that you have done for all women around the world who went through difficult time. You brought us all together, we shared laughs …cried & learned that PS was a place of comfort & a place for each of us to lean on each other. I have met in person a few beautiful ladies, know that you changed the world & got us all talking. What a Legacy, and I hope you are free of pain & heaven got another angel ❤ Bless you ❤
northcarolinahappy…PS
Oct 5, 2013 05:54 PM
God Bless all of you. Alice was a very special lady. she helped a lot of us and we will be forever grateful and miss her terribly. R.I.P Alice.
Judy
Oct 5, 2013 06:04 PM
Alice helped me in too many ways to mention.I will always remember the compassion she put into helping women everywhere. I do not know what I would have done with out Power Surge. I am so sad to hear of her passing.
Snowy
Oct 6, 2013 10:24 AM
So many are sadden and heartbroken to learn of Alice passing. She was there in our darkest moments to shine a light. The world has indeed lost a one of a kind rare gem! You may be gone Dearest Alice but NEVER will you be forgotten!
Dianne-PS
Oct 7, 2013 06:33 AM
My deepest condolences to Alice’s family. Thank you Dearest Alice for pioneering widespread support for thousands of women everywhere, your generosity and compassion was a gift for us all. You will be missed.
Leticia Jasso tinks
Oct 7, 2013 08:18 AM
Alice your being missed as we speak my condolences to those who now are in pain for your loss may they be comforted in knowing how very much you were loved by all us gals across the globe
Suzanne
Oct 7, 2013 06:07 PM
Alice, thank you for bringing women together during their times of need. Never to be forgotten for your good deeds!
RIP My sincere condolences to your family.
Mary Beth ( Emm Bee)
Oct 7, 2013 07:35 PM
Alice, You taught us how to be strng in the face of the craziness of life changes we couldn’t begin to imagine. You brought us together, you leave a legacy of thousands of sisters….You will never ever be forgotten – the calls, the thursday night open chats, the tears, the laughter the arguments, the healing, the help and mostly, The Love. You are STILL here. I hope somewhere you are somehow knowing how much you are loved. My deepest condolences and sympathy to everyone who loves you. I know I do. I will miss you….. ❤ You taught me so much. ((((( DEAREST)))))
AnxietyAttack ..AA…Sherlock
Oct 8, 2013 04:12 PM
I was so sorry to hear of Alice’s passing…Alice & PowerSurge were a God send to me in my time of need..when I first stumbled upon PowerSurge I found a community of wonderful women…who were all going thru exactly what I was….I no longer felt alone….i no longer felt I was losing my mind…..we all pulled each other thru our darkest hours…and in doing that we all became great friends…Alice and i became friends…I remember those long 4 hrs phone calls …alot of them in the middle of the night LOL…Alice left a legacy that I hope will live on for a long long time…helping the next generation of women going thru this very hard time of life….my sympathies and prayers go out to Alice’s family and friends…her life had a very important purpose…she helped so many people from all over the world…she may have never met them…but she & her vision saved many lives…and we will all be 4 ever grateful to her….GodSpeed My Sister
AnxietyAttack ..AA…Sherlock
Oct 8, 2013 04:12 PM
I was so sorry to hear of Alice’s passing…Alice & PowerSurge were a God send to me in my time of need..when I first stumbled upon PowerSurge I found a community of wonderful women…who were all going thru exactly what I was….I no longer felt alone….i no longer felt I was losing my mind…..we all pulled each other thru our darkest hours…and in doing that we all became great friends…Alice and i became friends…I remember those long 4 hrs phone calls …alot of them in the middle of the night LOL…Alice left a legacy that I hope will live on for a long long time…helping the next generation of women going thru this very hard time of life….my sympathies and prayers go out to Alice’s family and friends…her life had a very important purpose…she helped so many people from all over the world…she may have never met them…but she & her vision saved many lives…and we will all be 4 ever grateful to her….GodSpeed My Sister
AA
Oct 8, 2013 04:13 PM
Alice… see…somethings never change…i still cant work this puter…
PS Sister90
Oct 8, 2013 06:14 PM
My condolences to Alice’s family; if it wasn’t for Alice creating this website I don’t know what I would have done. It gave (and still gives) me great comfort as I go through my difficult menopause journey. Prayers and hugs to your entire family
Carrie Carr
Oct 10, 2013 11:38 PM
I did not know Alice personally, but the PS website literally saved my sanity during one of the worst health-related times of my life. Through it, I was able to meet many women going through or had gone through much of what I had been going through. Those same women are now like sisters to me. They are there for me every second of my life and because of Alice and her dedication to PS, many of our lives will never be the same. For the better. RIP Alice. My deepest condolences to your family and dear friends who love you so much.
Peggy Boyd
Oct 11, 2013 11:13 PM
Just heard the sad news. I am sorry for the family’s loss but we all lost a dear friend at her passing. She will be missed by women the world over. She was a real hero!
Anonymous
Oct 12, 2013 12:25 AM
From New Zealand
I just wanted your family to know Alice how much your work was able to help women like myself around the world.
A Power-Surge Sister
Oct 19, 2013 12:54 PM
So very sorry to hear of the passing of Alice. Thank you so much for what you did for us all with your wonderful website Power Surge. You will never be forgotten. God bless you and RIP.
From http://jewish-funeral-home.com/funeral-home-service-schedule-detail.php?id=7387
I am heart broken I would love for Alice to know that you dont have to go out and climb high mountains, or write important books, or even compose the most beautiful song ever and think this was all so important to do.
What Alice did was save my sanity, she helped me get a gripe on a very bad time in my life and in doing so she touched my family and they got relief by seeing me get better and understand these emotions that come with being a woman and menopause.
She was just one person that followed her heart and had such a passion and love for what she did and she loved so deeply she loved us all as a mother does her children.
I say Dearest was an amazing women that maybe alot of people will never know who Alice was our Dearest Alice was but boy I sure wish I could SHOUT FROM THE ROOF TOPS FROM THE MOUNTAIN TOPS “Dearest thank you for all you are and all you did there are no words to properly thank you”
So as our hearts ache yes its painful but then that beautiful story about that Butterfly says that God so loved her He allowed this little creature to come and give comfort because she is in Heaven and is in His arms in peace and joy and calm from all this earthly hub bub we now have to endure and finish the good fight .
Dearest I didn’t know you personally but you were one of my Dearest friends.
One very brokenhearted little bug named Tinks
“This site has literally saved my sanity and restored by sense of well-being while in the throes of perimenopause. I can’t imagine life without it as I log in everyday for a dose of comfort from these amazing women.
…
Dearest was an incredible woman and a pioneer in extending global help and support to millions of women.
Without her, many of us would be alone, afraid and left to face menopause without a clue as to how to get through it. May she rest in peace.”
Wildflowers on the PS Boards wrote:
Long ago my daughter asked me who is Alice in regards to power-surge, I explained Alice in terms of rock and roll stars (something she could relate to at that time..)
I said..well…Alice is like Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones, everyone loves Mick.
I told that story to Alice on the telephone and we laughed and laughed, since then, when talking to Alice on the phone or chat etc..I’d call her Mick. We both got a kick out of her nickname..Mick.
Daughter then said “You mean, you get to talk to her on the phone, and she chats with you”???,
I said “yep” and she said OMIGOD (she was a teen then..) that is really like talking to the STAR and I said..”sure is”
I told daughter of “Micks” passing and she said “Oh Mom, I now realize (she’s almost 27 now) how much her website and friendship meant to you and how much it helped..”……..
In 2003, I’d apparently posted a picture of Flora Dora (again!) and Alice responded:
Power Surge 