I’ve been thinking about Leslie quite a bit the past month. I’m not sure why, but I go through these periods. Just about everything I do reminds me of her, and makes me miss her. This is about the season, eleven years ago, that she started having symptoms that were later diagnosed as glioblastoma. At first she brushed them off, but as they worsened she sought treatment and received her diagnosis in February of 2014.
I pulled out some boxes of photos from storage, looking for a specific pictures of Jupiter of Saturn that I developed from telescopic photos taking at the Mt. Lemmon observatory in Tucson sometime around 1975. I wanted to share these pictures with my granddaughter, who expressed a desire to have a career as an astrophysicist. I couldn’t find those pictures, but I found many, many pictures of Leslie. I’ve posted several from a vacation we took in Mexico shorty after our relationship started. I also came across a paper she had written in the sixth or seventh grade entitled, “The First Eleven Years of Leslie.” I’ve included that in an update to this site. There are many more photos in those boxes which I might add to this site at a later date.