Grandma had been on life support since Thanksgiving. She'd gone in with pneumonia; she could barely talk, she was coughing so much. I'd talked to her a few weeks earlier to ask her about our family history, and she had been sick then, too ( Read more... )

I'm home. It's marvelous. Mom, Dad and I watched Ratatouille (which is epic, by the way) while decorating the first of our Christmas Trees. Cornelius the Pug is now inspired to do something he'd always been told he couldn't do: cook. There's the issue of his lack of thumbs, but I'm sure he'll work something out ( Read more... )