"My Little Town" - Paul Simon, 1975

Today, I want to highlight a new blog that I've linked in my "Family & Friends" section. And I'm using Paul Simon's great mid-70's hit, because that song has always made me think of the little town I lived in from my junior high days through my first year of college.

That little town is Salem, Illinois.

I have a couple of Salem links way down on the right-hand side of the main page of Lord Celery. It's a great little place.

While in Seattle last week (or maybe just before we left...my brain is still so fuzzy this morning...), I got a note from my long-time friend Vikki Cleveland. Vikki has always been a prolific writer. She's finally started her own blog. And I'm delighted by the news.

My father's job with one of the pipeline divisions of Texaco sent our family the 500 miles northeast from Tulsa, Oklahoma up to Salem in the early 60's. It was a really tough move for me...leaving lots of family and friends...leaving everything I'd ever known up until then. Vikki and I became buddies almost from the beginning of my time in Salem, and we've managed to stay in touch almost continually ever since.

So, I wanted all of you to notice the new link to...
From the Pen of Vikki Lyn

Vikki, I'm so very sorry it's been so long since I've gotten to see you!

Thank goodness Al Gore invented the internet, huh?

;-)

Janet