the marker

call July 18th a marker:
Emmylou Harris and the Red Dirt Boys in Central Park (which meant a 3/4 day off for me), 11 months since my last smoke and the first day of the last month of interviews with 49 year olds.

and since that date I've had the pleasure of speaking with epidemiologist Jeffery Taubenberger, trauma surgeon and friend Stephan Moran, economist Byron Schlomach, Virginia State Senator A. Donald McEachin, Georgia State Representative Karla Lea Drenner, writer and patient advocate 'Thyroid' Mary Shomon, Vermont Secretary of Natural Resources Deb Markowitz, Invisible Cure author Helen Epstein, Some Girls author Cyrus Patell, Nevada State Senator Moises 'Mo' Denis, Daily Show co-creator Lizz Winstead and string theorist Michael R. Douglas.
of course, if all goes as planned I've got two more interviews today and . . .

also, four days before the marker (July 14th), I interviewed Deborah Voorhees (that was a busy week as well).
Deborah's almost certainly best known for playing Tina in Friday the 13th: A New Beginning, but she's also worked as a high school English teacher and her current project is a film of her own, Billy Shakespeare (and here's where you can help).
Deborah was born 50 years ago today, and she's celebrating in a way unlike any other 49er I've yet interviewed: she's also getting married.
so happy birthday and congratulations and best wishes and all good things to Deborah (and all of us).