( I love the sky there. )

My sister called tonight to discuss meal planning for our up-coming camping trip.  It mostly revolved around who was bringing what alcohol.  I've got six liters of red wine and 3 liters of white wine.  She is bringing the makings for margaritas.    We'll buy beer on the way into the site ( Read more... )

My sister made a video for my children once that we called "Jurassic Park for Kids".  She cut out all the really scary scenes where the children were imperiled and kept just the beautiful placid cool ones of dinosaurs up close, with enough of the narration to make the story hang together.  It was a masterpiece that transformed a work best suited to ( Read more... )

First, I want to say that I totally made eye contact with John Malkovich, not once, but twice.  He realized I knew who he was, and realized I wasn't going to bug him about it, and appeared appreciative.  Personally, I was just going to ask him if he'd just come in on the plane from Paris, but decided that I wasn't going to bug him.  I figured he ( Read more... )

I don't think of this as a Mommy Blog, but I wanted to record a CTTS while I remembered.

I drove into Boston today to take C., my sixteen year old, to Logan so she could fly to Rome on a trip with my sister.  My sister, you may recall, is deliberately childfree.  She has a deal with me that she gets to borrow my children with my full blessing ( Read more... )