Baby chicks arrived at the post office this morning at 7:45. They're now unloaded from their cardboard box and in the brooder. # I have a whole lot of email to catch up on. Sounds like my [...]
Eating frosted chocolate cake and Havarti cheese for lunch. A sort of culinary stress marker, that is. # DS14 went to ballgame right after church, neglected to free enormous German shepherd from [...]
Conference is over: coffee and fruit in bed with fluffy pillows, a good book, and sunshine outside the window. # Happy to be back in Virginia. Would be even happier if United would actually find [...]
Sleet! # Let me try this one more time: READ something FIRST. REVIEW it SECOND. # SNOW! # Making creme brulee. Because I haven't gotten to use a blowtorch in way too long. # Heading out for [...]
Slept 14 hours after convention ended. Not that it wasn't a good time. #SouthEastHS # Today will be a day of itty bitty planes. # Itty bitty planes were accompanied by itty bitty customer [...]
Whew. Just finished two days of conferencing in which I talked non-stop about books, teaching writing, history, grammar, literature, my publishing company...and a thousand other things learning- [...]
Making flatbreads. Mushroom and fennel, pepperoni, garlic and white cheese, bacon and egg. # From well-reviewed book I'm reading: "The Bible calls Petra a 'rose-red city, half as [...]
"Steak butter": two words that should always go together. # I just got carded. :-0 # Looks like I just barely beat the tornadoes, torrents, and thunderstorms home. # DD 10 just [...]
Orchestra concert this afternoon, which means we are performing the ritual Panicked Last-Minute Hunt for the Missing Bow Tie. # Why would I watch the Oscars when Maryland is playing UNC? # [...]
It's a Captainish sort of day, when everybody says "Yes, Susan" and "No, Susan" and waits until I tell them. (Apologies to A. A. Milne) # It's warm and sunny in [...]
I adore my husband, love candy and dates, am a big fan of glorious meals out, and resent being told that all this MUST coincide on Feb. 14. # Starting to book flights for the spring conferences. [...]
