My orange shirt and tie have done a lot of duty today: the day started with a funeral and ended with a wedding, with a big ol' birthday party in between ( Read more... )

Today was my daughter's - my other daughter's - 9th birthday party. Her actual birthday is tomorrow.

Darling Daughter is an occasionally sickly but almost incessantly bouncy child, and just a pleasure to be around. Her mind is always working, and I like hearing about what it's doing today - and I like feeding it. We go to the zoo, we go to the ( Read more... )

I don't think I ever told you how my day of media went last week - where I had terrific chats on two different radio stations, and then went to tape a segment for TV. Well, I'm not going to be able to get into it now, except to say:

If you get local Indiana station WYIN-56, take a look at tonight's 9 o'clock news, Lakeshore News Tonight. I've got a ( Read more... )

A few years ago, I went back to the town where I grew up on a short visit, and happened to stop in at a diner I remembered. I saw some new specials on the menu, and feeling adventurous, ordered the Eggs Benedict.

The garnish was red and green, but what really caught my eye was that it was served on a hubcap! A clean one, of course, shining, but it ( Read more... )

The other day, talking to my dad about Christmas plans, he said that I shouldn't expect him and his bride to be able to make it this Saturday's Christmas get-together with Milwaukee Daughter at Mom-in-Law's, or in fact any gathering taking place anywhere but their home. Apparently, Carolyn is tired A LOT and though she's doing OK-ish - there's been ( Read more... )

 Dammit.

On a Discworld site, Terry Pratchett writes:

AN EMBUGGERANCE

Folks,

I would have liked to keep this one quiet for a little while, but because of upcoming conventions and of course the need to keep my publishers informed, it seems to me unfair to withhold the news.  I have been diagnosed with a very rare form of early onset Alzheimer's, which ( Read more... )

 Got in quite late today, from my morning's adventures - more on them in a bit - but got here just in time to weigh in ( Read more... )

Three years ago, we dragged a live tree into our house, decorated it, and sat in front of it with our 2-week-old daughter for our Christmas photo "and baby makes three" card. Una and I had our traditions for Christmas up until then, the usual amalgam of what we'd each grown up with, what we each wanted to do, and the families we had to go spend ( Read more... )

So I'm feeling kind of popular at the moment.

I was thinking that my December was going to be a little quieter than October, which was fine. It fluctuates. I had, I think, 8 gigs telling spooky stories and stuff for Halloween, and this year it so happens I just had one Christmas storytime (which is tonight) in addition to the 3 performances of " ( Read more... )

 2.2!

I lost my Thanksgiving pound, plus another. Yay!

And here I was mentally preparing a post about how I should have lost 2 pounds this week, but I screwed up this weekend, so it's only 1, if that . . .

I'm at 9.8 - about to hit the 10-pounds-lost mark. Next week!