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I WANT to go running in the cold, cold rain. Yes, I do. Watch me step out the door. Here I go. Right now. Almost gone. Leaving right now. # Went running. Then stood in the rain holding [...]

This is what you do on a holiday week: hitch the Demon Pony (who has been ground-driven up until now) to the cart and work on those actual driving skills. This is the Demon Pony, otherwise known [...]

Mom (chef) and Chris (sous chef)… The gourmet marshmallows (essential part of sweet potato casserole)… Piefest 2009… Mmmm… Grammy and Pawpaw… All four kids in one [...]

Then I got distracted.

If you have a blog and you’d like to review the History of the Medieval World, you can get an advance copy…now! Email [email protected] for details. (We now return you to [...]

From Publisher’s Weekly: Tim LaHaye, co-author of the megaselling Left Behind series of apocalyptic novels, has switched publishers and will partner with lawyer-author Craig Parshall on a [...]

November night early: Orion's belt stands up on end just above the horizon. # Monday!! Monday!! I get to go off the grid AND go to 2012. Don't care how bad it is, just want to see the big [...]

Almost a year ago, I finished the manuscript of The History of the Medieval World and sent it off to Norton. And only seven months late. Or maybe more, I kind of lost track. But I did overnight [...]

No, this isn’t a reflection on what e-books are going to do to publishing; it’s just a notification that my blogs (both this one and the Well-Trained Mind blog) are now available on [...]

Note to undergrads: Don't email prof on weekend to ask for information that's already in course catalog. Won't help you get into the class. # On 62nd Street in Manhattan, drinking [...]

I spent the first part of this week in New York: people to see, business to do, obscure books to consult, and a visit to the Norton fall sales conference cocktail party. Which was delightful [...]

I am just erasing today. Poof! It does not exist. # Oh, look. Rain. # Impulse to sing old John Denver songs at sight of morning sunshine=sign of age. # After a day of ferrying kids to violin [...]