In Maryland visiting DH's folks, heading to Mrs. K's Tollhouse for lunch. # DH and DS13 headed off to watch Maryland play Miami. # Heading back to VA from MD. Hello, I-95, what horrors do [...]
I pre-ordered a copy of The History of the Medieval World from Amazon.com months ago, back when the book went into production (I always do this, just to keep tabs on availability). Today I get [...]
DS18 has arrived safely at Phalaborwa. (Huge sigh of relief.) # DS18 texts: "Have been pooped on by monkey, bitten twice, put hand in strange white goo, best day ever." He's at [...]
No, not that kind. My author’s copies of The History of the Medieval World arrived! SOOO pretty… Ooh, and look at them TOGETHER… Really a lovely design job–same look as [...]
Starting tomorrow, I’m teaching a once-a-week creative writing class at William & Mary. I’m not a tenure-track academic; by the time I’d finished my first graduate degree, [...]
Back to work this morning. Still slightly peeved that New Orleans was colder than Virginia in January. # DD9's pony bears an increasingly strong resemblance to a goat. With a big hairy beard. [...]
This is my friend Claude, who came from Haiti in the 1970s under the sponsorship of my parents, who met him while they were working on a medical mission in Haiti. Claude lived with us for years [...]
And…we’re back. Advent is finished; Christmas is past; we took down the tree (and burned it, which is a dramatic but sort of unsettling end to the holiday). I put away all the [...]