October 23 — Sunday (Part 2)

Charlie's Angels

After the reunion mass with the family in the morning, I had another reunion, with “Charlie’s Angels,” a lovely group of ladies with whom I worked in Louisville back in the 1970s and 1980s.  Nancy Reynolds (L) and Donna Lashley (second L) I taught at Angela Merici High School; Sally Newton went to AMHS also and was part of St. Lawrence Parish where I was first assigned; Norma Lewis is the doyenne of American Sign Language interpreters in the United States; and Peg Darcy has worked with Norma and assisted with interpreting for the Catholic Deaf community for many years.  We try to get together each time I come back to the U.S.


At the Davis house

Often I stay with Mary and Mike Davis when I am in Louisville, but this trip, because their daughter was married the day before I arrived in Louisville, I stayed at the English house where we had the reunion.  After the wedding house guests had basically gone home, though, I came over to the Davis house for my last night in Louisville.  From L to R: Dennis Dittmeier (Florida), Bailey Davis, Mary Dittmeier Davis, Martha Dittmeier Reed (Ohio), Amy Davis, and Charlie, with Mike Davis seated.

Back to Work…

Sunset at the airport

I’ve been on the road and out of the loop for a week or so as I traveled to Kentucky and then got caught up in all the unexpected goings-on with my family.  There was a lot of running around both by car and by plane.  (The photo above is sunset in Shanghai, China as I changed planes to go to Bangkok after a 15+ hour flight from New York City.)  Now I am back in Phnom Penh and can start catching up with the photos and stories of the trip.