Time for a new look, eh? The old one was starting to feel dingy and claustrophobic. It still needs a few tweaks, so I hope you’ll bear with me for a day or two until the dust settles. In honor of the new theme I thought it would be fun to take a trip down memory [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2007
Vacation assignment
Next week the clan will be heading up north to family camp again, this time with a literary twist. My husband’s offhand observation that the camp was located in the heart of Hemingway country led to a proposal that we read some of his short stories in advance, and discuss them while we’re there. There has [...]
The sincerest form of flattery, perhaps
When Joey had his accident I was about 150 pages from the end of John Irving’s A Prayer for Owen Meany. That was my book group’s pick for July and our meeting was scheduled for a few days later. I had been having very strong and very negative feelings about the book and it was [...]
Another literary meme
Veronica Mitchell tagged me for this one. Some of these questions were pretty tough and some were downright painful. The painful questions were the ones that asked you to consider fictional characters as if they were real. Who would you invite to a party, who would you want for a sibling, etc. Those questions made [...]
Introducing Leslie Ford
I had the devil of a time keeping this photography website under wraps while I was working on it. Leslie’s work is simply stunning, and I am so excited to share it with you now that we’ve gone “live.” Here’s a screenshot showing a single photo, but do visit the site to see the whole [...]
Quick update
Joey is doing great! Two days ago he had surgery on his nose — outpatient, but with general anaesthetic — and it went really well. The doctor told us he’d be in a lot of pain, but he didn’t even want ibuprofin, let alone the prescription painkillers. And just in case you had any lingering [...]
Ordeal
We are making a point of saying Joey had “an accident with his bike” rather than Joey was “hit by a car” because even though it is true, it sounds so horrific. We were very lucky. He is fine. We were biking together yesterday morning (trying to be virtuous, dammit!). We were riding on the sidewalk. I [...]