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Burgers stuffed w/havarti & goat cheese, homemade rolls, good wine, Lost finale. If only I'd WATCHED Lost, I'd be able to follow this. # Heading to NYC this afternoon for BookExpo; [...]

Here’s AudioFile’s take on the 22.5 hour (!) audiobook version of The History of the Medieval World: THE HISTORY OF THE MEDIEVAL WORLD : From the Conversion of Constantine to the [...]

What an odd show this year. We had a number of good conversations, but although Peace Hill Press is having its best year ever, BookExpo was sloooowww. (If you’re interested in comparisons, [...]

We arrived yesterday at the Javitz Center for BookExpoAmerica, the big annual trade book fair attended by hundreds and hundreds of publishers, all with new releases to promote. (I’ll post [...]

Excited about the rain. Less exciting that it's coming down on the day we were going hiking for dh's birthday. # Getting ready to see Robin Hood with dh. HOPING for movie home run. # On [...]

Time for me to embarrass my oldest son by telling him how wonderful he is. Final decision has been made–he’ll be attending the University of Virginia this fall. (Hurrah! Within [...]

I don’t usually do movie reviews, but ever since I mentioned that my husband and I were headed off to see Robin Hood earlier in the week, people have been asking me what I thought. I guess [...]

Looking at spiral and barred spiral galaxies in the backyard observatory with my father and @davidbryan. Clear, cool, real. # Just spent tedious half hour untangling large blacksnake from [...]

I just hit “submit” on William & Mary’s Banner Self-Service for Faculty page and sent all the grades to the registrar. The semester’s over! (Pause for cheers.) I only [...]

Kids are in the pool. It feels like glacial runoff in there, but they don't seem to mind. # Would be posting more status updates if anything even slightly interesting were happening here. # [...]

Don't look now, but I might actually get out of Chicago this morning. # Hello, house! I'll say this for being stranded: it makes being home & doing laundry positively JOYFUL [...]

The early strawberries are in. So I thought I’d give you Meme’s strawberry shortcake recipe (Meme was my mother’s foster mother, a Depression-era chicken farmer, and an amazing [...]