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At the present, my LEFT foot surgery has been rescheduled for the 5th of July; hopefully nothing else will blow that out of the water.  My RIGHT foot - well, went to see a podiatrist on that, and he took new X-rays of my foot that show how crippled up it looks (which never fails to sadden me) and he pointed out different broken spots on my 4th and ( Read more... )

See http://www.epa.gov/bpspill/

I know that the Administrator was down these in the last couple of days, and that there’s a huge gearing up on this issue.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/225492/page/1
The Power of Two:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/225098
Photo gallery of the kids, etc.  The Intro picture is particularly stunning.

This has been in the works since spring.  Newsweek came in with a Pulitzer-award winning photographer who was fresh from covering the White House and Obama and Bush to do the shots ( Read more... )

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Some months ago,  we and the other Meredith’s family were contacted by a prominent reporter for NEWSWEEK to be part of a story about a twin study that has been going on by Dr. Nancy Segal of Cal State Fullerton.  (We’ve been in the separated twin study for a number of years.)  When she heard the details on the kids, the reporter decided to amp up ( Read more... )

The short end of it is that Susan, Meredith and I will be totally occupied with a Seekrit Project from about dinnertime Thursday to Friday evening (the first night of Duckon). Mike Harrington is flying in on Friday morning from Birmingham to be Duckon’s Science Guest of Honor, along with his daughter Meredith Ellen, and Susan, Mere and I are ( Read more... )

Folks in Alabama got enough snow to build snowmen, and everyone here in Chicago is beyond darn tired of winter.  Spring can show up anytime…especially for our poor confusable magnolia tree in the front yard near our picture window, which will bud at the first sign of a thaw. Any sign.

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It’s official that we will have a visitor for the Christmas - New Years holidays - the Harringtons bought Meredith Ellen a ticket to fly up here for a week, from the 28th to the 3rd.  Both the twins are rapturously happy.

The reaction, as I related it to Leigh Ann:

Mere: *huge amounts of excited squealing*
Mere: How long?
Daddy: Oh, about a week.
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