Lois McMaster Bujold surprised me on Tuesday by posting at Baen's Bar that she was flying in from Minnesota to attend the Baltimore Book Festival this past weekend.

I called my family members to whom I had addicted introduced her books.  The short notice produced wails as agonized realization ensued that they had counter-scheduled.  Oh, well ( Read more... )

My mother, bored in her marriage to my step-father Jim O'Brien, decided to remedy herself of the marriage by insisting on a divorce to which Jim would not complacently accept.

My mother applied sweet reason:  "You have to sleep sometime," she told him.

Jim agreed to the divorce.

[This tale I heard repeated on numerous occasions thereafter by my mother ( Read more... )