Trego's Mountain Ear

I’ve been lucky with knees. The right knee has been scoped twice and is still working. The left knee has been scoped three times, and on Tuesday it went through a total knee replacement. Each surgery has protected me from qualifying as a cripple – and none of the surgeries could be done a century ago. Modern medicine makes it a good time to be alive.

Which kind of gets us to the point of what has happened to the Mountain Ear. Coming out on Tuesdays just kind of quit working when Sam found herself tied to Trego’s Monday school board meetings. Adding in the challenge of two small boys has kind of whelmed getting it out on time – and we’ve reached a spot where a recovering knee let’s me try to get things out where we’re kind of on time – I’ll be a little stove up, but it won’t keep me from writing and editing. Sam, with a $700,000 grant to develop a home school/public school model at Trego will be spending more time in the public sector – and I’ll be back writing. And the answer is yes – she’s fortunate to have two healthy little boys, and I’m lucky to be going through the sixth knee surgery that will give me back walking. I’ve missed it.