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Well, I won’t go around claiming that the Great Mouse Invasion ’06 is “over.” But I can say that the herds and packs of mice, and the constant snapping of traps in the background, are gone. We haven’t trapped a … Continue reading →

The good news is that Isaac is himself again. Now he’s doing his nightly nude laps around the house and claiming to be… the flash! It’s been sort of a slog getting us both back into our blooming good health, … Continue reading →

I’m too tired to tell much of what has been happening. We just got home a couple hours ago. Talk about a good time for a lap top. yesterday I would have posted but the hike through miles of uncharted … Continue reading →

I’m writing from the glitziest possible sunniest most high-tech library I’ve ever seen. I was able to get here simply by walking through miles of tunnels and skyways in the Cleveland Clinic Complex. It’s been a very intense couple days. … Continue reading →

It’s been sort of a strange month around here. Our babysitter Zimbabwean Sheila had to move to Canada abruptly for immigration reasons in early feb. This left me with no writing time (errand time, mental health time) whatsoever and it’s … Continue reading →

Our new heroes are Maurice and Katia Krafft, French Volcanologists who filmed and photographed more erupting volcanoes than anyone before or since. A few clips of their incredible footage appeared in the first volcano video we got from the library … Continue reading →

After the pink-shoe question of fall, 2005, (See blog entry “The Boy Who Likes Pink,” 10/3/05) it seemed the Pink Problem had gone away. Isaac started picking out things that were orange. I let him decide what color of sweatshirt … Continue reading →

Isaac fantasizes about handling pretty much everything with a gun. A couple weeks ago we were walking in our local park, which is under construction and which was blighted by broken glass. (It always is blighted by broken glass, by … Continue reading →

1) read the New York Times for hours, sentence after sentence, story after story 2) drink tea, without interruption, while it’s still hot 3) take a long nature walk with the dog, walking briskly all the while, without coaxing/dragging/carrying a … Continue reading →

“Mommy, do you like quiet things?” It seemed an innocuous enough question, especially as lately the child has been given to piercing ear-splitting shrieks and fingernail-on-chalkboard imitations, as a way, for instance, to express displeasure with being served green beans … Continue reading →