Slept in late. Went back into Sag Harbor, to Southampton town, back to Sag Harbor village for lunch. The Corner Bar, steamed mussels in garlic white wine sauce with toasted garlic bread. In Southampton, Adam and I bought several varities of flavored kombucha tea. We brewed a pitcher of moringa tea to drink with dinner, which was barbecue leftovers ( Read more... )

This morning, Mom chose two pages from my novel to show a writer friend of hers. This afternoon, the writer friend called to talk to me ( Read more... )

I am in Sag Harbor ( Read more... )

Several of you have expressed interest in seeing my parents' house, with all the paintings, sculptures, and sketches galore. I present to you the Capello Gallery. Complete with Capellos.http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=138375&id=640545683&l=

After a traffic growl that forced everyone off a part of the Jersey Turnpike, Adam and I arrived in Gaithersburg at 8:30, two hours later than we had initially planned. But we knew that from the beginning ( Read more... )

Stuffed to the throats, and mountains of food left over. We will be bringing home so much food ( Read more... )

Traffic was snarled from Delaware well into Long Island, and it took us about seven hours, but dinner was waiting, and my parents grabbed us in long happy embraces. We ate shrimp and catfish with dark green vegetables, and we watched Star Trek 2009 on my parents' new flat screen television, and we taught my mother how to use her new laptop, and we ( Read more... )

We demolished an 18-pound turkey, the eleven of us. There was a lively debate on the nature of theism versus atheism (Mom, an atheist, doesn't understand any sort of theism, while Bruce, an atheist, says that belief in divinity is something that cannot be explained or defined and should be allowed to grow and thrive until something else is found). ( Read more... )

It's a beautiful, sunny day in Sag Harbor, and Mom is cooking the turkey while conversation flows. Our guests, the Baileys, will arrive by three o'clock ( Read more... )

Live, from (Sag Harbor) New York, it's Monday night ( Read more... )