Hi,

I'm going to add my two cents, because it's timely... as I'll explain
in a moment. I agree with the concept of this list not becoming a
huge chatroom-via-email, because it would be horrendously
time-consuming to read.

I also agree that, if all I wanted were "just the facts," I'd go to the website.

I feel a personal connection with people whose stamps I've found,
people I've met at gatherings or as I've traveled, or who've left
notes in my own letterboxes. I want to know what's going on in their
lives, especially if they go quiet for an extended time.

And, at the other extreme--and the reason why this is timely--I went
through the divorce from Hades and was totally quiet about it--didn't
even let people know that I was going entirely "no mail"... which
ended up being over two years. (At the time, I thought I'd pull
myself together within a month or two, and there was no reason to say
much.)

Somewhere in the middle is a happy medium. I don't know what that is,
and I actually feel that an extended discussion of this can--for some
readers, especially on Digest--burden the list even more than the
initial post seemed to.

But anyway, I've been reading the list for the past few months as a
lurker, and I'm slowly getting back to letterboxing again. I've moved
from NH to TX, and I'm still not 100% back to my usual activity level,
but I am planning to resume letterboxing.

So, I'm wondering if anyone has seen either of my letterboxes at
Gilson Rd, Nashua, NH lately, or the Briget Bishop one in Salem, MA.
(I know that the Seacoast ones vanished awhile ago.) And, I don't know
if all of the Fort Worden ones (near Seattle, WA) have gone missing
now, as well.

I have updated my own pages with the last reports that I had, but if
my pages still don't reflect what's actually going on, I am too far
away from the boxes to know about it.
http://www.aisling.net/lb/lb-index.htm

Cheerfully,
Aisling D'Art
(who also writes as Eibhlin Morey MacIntosh and is at that email at
this moment, so that's why the email address may look unfamiliar to
longtime list members)