Riled up Sky, Galena, originally uploaded by twoblueday.
My brother and I took a trip to Galena, Illinois, this past weekend. We stayed overnight, and had a great time. We ate at a tasty restaurant, heard some good music, and relaxed. Galena is an old lead mining town. The mines played out, but the town is a great tourist destination. It’s hilly there, and a couple of streets are interrupted by long, steep flights of stairs to the upper bluff. Huffing Puffing Full Sweat stairs.
Met up with two high schoomates I handn’t seen in years. Sharon had married yet another classmate, but was widowed a few years ago. Craig had been all over the place, recently living in Australia as a permanent resident. I had last seen him in Napa Valley about 1980. We had dinner and a drink and talked well into the evening at their house (they are a couple now). A good night.
I saw that Tatum O’Neal got arrested for buying cocaine and crack cocaine. I cannot recall what made her famous other than being Ryan O’Neal’s daughter. She apparently has had her troubles with substances in the past but, I gather, had recently been “sober.” She blamed certain negative factors for her relapse (well, almost relapse, and therein lies the story). She told the New York Post that if she had not been caught and arrested it would have been her very first drug use of her relapse. The police actually rescued her. It was this wonderful coincidence! What caused her to go looking for thrills? Her dog died. If I can make the link, you gotta read it. Celebrity junkies, what a crew!
