Thank you for all the lovely comments on the last post! And thanks, cesperanza, for the virtual gift basket! Because actual baths are restricted for now, I am pretending that the basket was full of bubbles and bath salts and other indulgences for my virtual self.

Clarifications: (1) Rivkid 2.0 is a girl. ( on baby gender )

( VCRs, bullfighters, children's literature, and whatever Richard Posner has been thinking about )

I'm back! Actually, I'm now in Virginia - eek! - mostly settled in, which means that clothes are in dressers and books are on shelves, though paper and random bits of hardware remain strewn around lavishly. Also, we don't have a sofa for the living room, which means that the two end tables look kind of funny bracketing a sofa-shaped space. But I ( Read more... )