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My son Tom, daughter in-law Jennifer and daughter, Julie went to Agnes Scott tonight to hear Neil Gaiman speak and to have our favorite books by him signed by him. He read from "Odd and the Frost Giant" (which I had only read last week) and "The Graveyard Book". He answered several questions. He chatted. He was enormously entertaining. After about ( Read more... )

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His plane landed about 45 minutes late. Then it took an hour to get through customs (one more thing screwed up due to Bush administration stupidity - they also took the expensive bottle of bug spray out of his suitcase when his was on the way out). By the time we got home, the dog and I had been driving around for 3 hours and Skip was exhausted so ( Read more... )

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Momma and I went to see Cinderella at Atlanta Lyric Theatre tonight, which was perfectly lovely and we had a great time. Naturally on the way home we chatted about the show and the performers. For about 15 minutes. A few seconds silence. ( Then... )

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The fall winter holiday season has always been my favorite time of year but it's my least favorite in Atlanta. Halloween is still good because it doesn't matter what anyone else does or what the weather is, I can still get in the mood for Halloween. Christmas season is another thing - it never feels like Christmas/Solstice/whatever-you-want-to-call ( Read more... )