So I got about the best (slightly early) present for Father's Day that I could get -- a new son! Mom and baby are fine, and we are tired, but very happy. More to come ( Read more... )

Hello, lovely folk and dear friends -- I wanted to send out an announcement about a new magical camp starting up in Wales this summer. The theme is exciting and fun (and might particularly appeal to some of you...), and I will be there with my son, Forest. It's a bit far to go, but the site is really magnificent -- a rural permaculture and ( Read more... )

I am proud of my state. And of northern New England in general, every single state of which has now passed a same-sex marriage law. "Live Free Or Die," indeed.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) _ New Hampshire legislators approved a measure Wednesday that would make the state the sixth to allow gay marriage, and Gov. John Lynch said he would sign it later in ( Read more... )

So I've been waaaaay out of touch here for a while -- short version is that all is well, baby is healthy and due June 19, mom is doing very well, life is about as one might expect with a new baby due in about six weeks. Yikes. And my Beamish Boy and I are just about to finish reading The Two Towers together (whereupon he gets to see the movie, ( Read more... )

Okay, who thought this was anything other than a bad, bad oh so bad plan...

Cat Twitter app for iPhone lets cats post thoughts

Yoikes.

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From the UK:

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I got a call from my father early this morning that my grandmother died about 3am last night. She was my father's mother, the Irish side of the family, in her 90s and in seriously declining health, recently moved from her apartment to assisted living and then to hospice care, but I think this caught us all by surprise just the same ( Read more... )

For anyone local who wants something fun to do tonight -- I'll be there skiing with F, and it looks like all the Casa Chaosites will be converging there as well.

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Motivated by the Presidential Inauguration, Upper Valley nonprofit groups are getting together to organize A Community Celebration. The concept for the event stems from the New ( Read more... )

On this auspicious day (ding, dong, the 8-year reign of idiocy is over), I am very pleased to report that the blood tests and ultrasounds came out perfectly normal, so much so that no amnio is needed after all (insert big sigh of relief), and...it's a boy! The pictures leave, er, no doubt. F will be thrilled, he really wanted a little brother ( ( Read more... )

So Griffin just got his booster shots on Monday and at 15 weeks is a bit over 32 lbs -- a big boy! But not overweight, he's just growing like crazy. He's learning like crazy, too -- sit, stay, down, come, crate and so on. He's pretty good on lead or off, but after a while when we didn't use it much, he's started getting more unhappy with it on, ( Read more... )