We all live our lives in overlapping circles, like animated Venn diagrams. I’ve seen this best summed up in a few words by a couple of British writers: P. D. James, in Innocent Blood, [...]
Getting ready to travel to Vancouver. Always have to remind myself that yes, different COUNTRY than Seattle, take passport. # Losing a baby at 6 months is not a miscarriage [...]
Happy 14th birthday to Dan! # Tonight: DS14: "Man, Napoleon got PONED at Waterloo–" DD10, shrieking: "Don't tell me what happens before I read it! You'll ruin the [...]
October has not been a good blogging month. In fact, I’m sort of been MIA. But I’m still here and still writing…which is why I haven’t had a non-Twitter post up. Writing, [...]
In the Star Alliance lounge at Heathrow, waiting to board my flight to Washington. Ready to hug the kids, kiss my dh, and eat some veggies. # Home from the UK, contemplating the stack of mail [...]
Monday night football, mustard-honey chicken wings, homemade five-cheese ravioli w/fried sage. Now if Patriots would just get it together… # Whatever genius designed the UVA parent [...]
Orson Scott Card, thanks for the shout-out: http://tinyurl.com/262fn3e. (Scroll down. It was a faint shout-out.) # The day is cold, and dark, dreary/It rains, and the wind is never weary. (But we [...]
I’ve been catching up on my back issues of Publishers Weekly and came across this column, which I thought I’d share with you. (This is an excerpt; read the whole thing here.) Ms. [...]
In Athens; just spent the evening climbing around Mars Hill. # Just back from swimming in the Aegean. I could see my TOES on the bottom. Not like Virginia swimming, where all you can see is the [...]
Two days in Rome turned out to be just about right. Venice was right up Dan’s alley; it was fun and imaginative and filled with tiny crooked paths. Rome was huge and crowded and noisy and [...]
In Venice with dh and DS13. Spent night before last on a plane and last night on a train; Venice currently kind of fuzzy. # Could really get into this whole Italian "lunch + bottle of wine [...]
