His baby brother died last night and he’s there with his brother’s family now. They lost their parents some years back and I remember when my mother-in-law’s little sister died and she felt so alone. I can’t do anything — he’s on the West Coast, I’m here in Ohio — but send prayers and I’d [...]

My mother-in-law took Madison again this morning so I could have time to stare at the computer screen and not write. (I took some notes and did some free writing but I’m at the stuck point when you just keep pounding the keyboard waiting for something to come through.)
When she came back they brought incense, [...]

I’m down here editing (argh! editing!) and Madison was down here, too, playing with her toy accordion, which you can understand might be distracting. But I’m going with the flow, accordion or not and suddenly I sense little tiny fingers fiddling with all of my pens in the holder right next to my computer and [...]

Actually we already went but that’s the only zoo song I know.
Yesterday we went to the zoo and hung out with Jenna (and family), Erin (and family) and Judy (and family) and despite the ROBUST humidity, it was pretty great.
1. Jenna is honestly the most gorgeous pregnant woman I’ve ever seen. She has the proverbial [...]

I’m going to be working all weekend in my dark, dank little basement cubbyhole. On the bright side when I do come up out of my hole it’ll be to splendid weather! I’ve also got to nail down the itinerary to this travel piece and that’s going to be a very complicated jigsaw puzzle to [...]