I found this in Don't You Have Time to Think?, an extensive collection of letters, personal and professional, edited by his daughter Michelle. Something reminded me the date was near. Her introduction to this one is this: "This letter is well worn-much more so than others-and it appears as though he reread it often."

Thursday, Oct. 17, '46 ( Read more... )

For those of you not on Facebook at the moment, a little something I wrote as an extension of yesterday's post. Biting my nails and waiting for 2 AM. About to get dressed and drive off to the lab for this viewing party we're having ( Read more... )

I guess it wouldn't quite be Valentine's without late-night, ill-advised, confessional chat conversations with former loves, would it? ...oh, just me? Ah well. Happy Valentine's Day, theotherjay; and happy Valentine's, everyone else out there who is dear to my heart ( Read more... )

I just want to look in your eyes and ask this of each of you, and of almost everyone I know. Including myself.

In the words of the wonderful A. A. Milne:

“Pooh, Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
- Christopher Robin

Promise me you won't ever forget?

This weekend was + and - but overall ( Read more... )

I had planned to take pictures of the subjects of this post, for variety's sake, but have no camera at the moment and have been too lazy to borrow one for a week, so here's descriptions, in any case.

+ I found a four-leaf clover on the first day of classes. This bodes well, I (like to) think.

+ I'd been meaning to post this for a while, for katealaurel and ( Read more... )

And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.