The Good Folks at Moreland Towers in Hatboro, PA

Oh, sorry. This is 10 Moreland Street. In Melbourne, Australia. See Archello Architects.



Light outside when I go in to great - Freudian slip - I meant to write "greet" but wrote "great" Allan Heller and a few ladies from our writers' group.

Allan Heller was his witty best.

At last we got to meet ROCKY, choose one....

Rocky the talking cat
Rocky the Raccoon
Rocky the lapper of toilet water

 Here's Marf and Donna.

Yoo hoo! Carly, where art thou?

Are you hiding under the table?

Carly just wrote this lovely note:

Dear Allan M Heller

You did it again.   You made me laugh in the past and again last night.  I admire you for your strength and your talent is brilliant and I appreciate your friendship.  And you remembered that darn book!

Well thank you for thinking of us and inviting us for an evening out with a grand guy.  How could we turn away? Of course,  we wouldn't!   Next time? ?  Of course!

Nice old radio, record player. Does it work?

Mrs Allan Heller - Tatiana - has Catholic shrines all over the house. She was spending the night at her parents' house. Mom has Lyme disease and needs help.

Allan's sister bought this in Japan. She and her husband live in Silicon Valley. She just received her PhD and was hired by Intel.

Here's Allan's mom. And Allan himself when he was acting in - what? - a Shakespeare play perhaps. Look! Allan had hair at one time.

This is Mint Bark from Stutz Homemade Candies. I bought an assortment of chocolates for Allan.

Everyone brought sweets. A couple of delicious kuchens.

After everyone left, I stayed behind and called my friend Winnie Bannigan who lives in the Towers.

"Cmon over, doll," she said. So I took the elevator to the sixth floor. There are eight floors at the Towers.

People have cute things on their front doors.

Winnie and I were neighbors at Village Green Apartments. I lived in H-6, she lived in J-2.

Her daughter Dawn babysat Dan and Sarah.

Here's Dawn, 48. She has three children in their early 20s. Damian, Dustin, and a girl whose name I forget. The girl has two kids of her own, so Winnie is a great-grandmother.

Here's Dawn and son Damian. They're very close.

Dawn and her husband Ed, a disabled truck driver, have fallen on hard times. They live in Virginia, which Winnie says is exquisitely beautiful. 

Winnie lived there awhile. She'd been working at the Baker Jewelry factory here but transferred to Virginia.

One of her jobs was melting gold

 She earned a lot of money and has a nice pension today.

Winnie's late mother is on the right. Her Aunt Winnie is the other gal. 

Winnie looks great at 73. She had polio at age 3 and got the post-polio syndrome. Her feet were reconstructed by an excellent surgeon. She's very content in her comfortable apartment, which is beautifully furnished.

I told her she must come visit me sometime.