As I edit this post on Saturday morning, the Woman's Final of the French Open tennis tournament, which has a rare Italian finalist, Francesca Schiavone, is going on as she plays an Australian, Samantha Stosur. The Italian has won the first set and Rome, where Susan and Lindsay are now together, must be going crazy. When I began this post last night, Susan was in the air on U.S. Airways flight #720 from Charlotte to Rome (about a 9-hour flight ... it left on 6:15 p.m . EST and landed in Rome - 6 hours ahead of us -- at 9:30 a.m.).

letter to Doug about Dad and our dinner at Valentina's ... love of baseball, the swing of Yogi Berra, going to a NY Yankees game, no idea how he got there but came to this country and saw the game on TV and had to have the interns explain the game ... 2nd phase of the mom's endoscopy and the wandering stint ... Dr. Corso did not find it in the pancreatic duct and an x-ray, viewed by Dr. Sanford Diznoff, a colleague of dad's, in the darkened, computer-monitor filled radiology area where he brought up the digital films of mom to locate the stint in her lower intestines on the way to expulsion ... so many contacts for dad, mostly through the employee clinic, so many earned memories from employees who have a real like for him ... I hear it in their talk with him. They loved him and what he did in the employee clinic. I have to get this on paper and send it to Doug to explain this day and yes, we watched the Flyers tie the Stanley Cup Series with the Chicago Blackhawks with a nailbiter -- 5-3 win after the Hawks came back from 4-1 to got to 4-3. Jeff Carter scored an open-net goal to seal the victory. The Phils also won 3-2 with Brad Lidge getting his 2nd save, an impressive one, and Roy Halladay, after pitching a perfect game 5 days ago, giving up 10 hits for his 8th win of the year.