Meredith is now out of school, and sleeping some very long hours, catching up on her sleep, energy, you name it.  Her artistic roller figure skating training schedule for the upcoming meets (Regionals in Flint, MI at the end of this month, and probably the National Championships in Fort Wayne at the end of July)  mean that she’s spending every day ( Read more... )

Stephy Lee (mail link) just called and said that Marta Rose, local fan and huckster, died suddenly earlier today. I didn’t know Marta very well, but others have mentioned her attendance at the local conventions, working huckster rooms, and her service with the Mundelein Library and the Kirk Players.

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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... )

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... )

Got the reservations in for Duckon yesterday, and working with the con to make sure that the twins can bop back and forth between the rooms at night.  Trust me, this is important for them and for our sanity.

Susan decided to not go off with her mom to Sioux Falls for the Memorial Day weekend; my health has been too dicey, and she’s really motivated ( Read more... )

Very frustrating day on a lot of accounts.  More after the cut.
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