Amongst the nicely wrapped gifts physically brought to our wedding by a guest or guests was a picture frame- specifically, a Lenox Opal Innocence "Wedding Promises" double picture frame. I believe this link should have a nice photo for reference ( Read more... )

I'm back from my dad's multi-day birthday extravanganza and want to post about it soon, but meanwhile I feel compelled to share this video, just in case anyone else finds it as funny as I do - which, I admit, seems unlikely.

http://black20.com/virals/?s=87

I'm trying to post as regularly as possible for a year.

For simplicity, almost all these posts will be friends-only. If you're a friend of mine who would like to have your lj name added to my lj flist, then please let me know.

( Why does anyone read fiction? )

As we were walking home up 9th Ave last night, a horse-drawn carriage rushed past us down 9th. The horse was running full-out, many times faster than I've ever seen a horse pulling one of those things go, and the driver was straining to try to get the horse back under control. "Something sure scared that horse," I said. The carriage blew through ( Read more... )

The beautiful kitten I begged for when I was twelve- who quickly became the ferocious nineteen-pound cat who hated everyone (except, mysteriously, Johann), and then several months ago became the pathetically skinny, mangy, elderly furr-person sporting dreadlocks (apparently because he'd lost the will to groom)- seems to have run away.

( Okay, stalked slowly away. )

Merwin is doing a reading for Hofstra's Great Writers/ Great Readings series next Wednesday, so this one's been on my mind ( Read more... )

Last night I took the campus shuttle to the train station to come home to the city, as I do every Wednesday. It had been raining hard for an hour or so and was just stopping when we got to the station. The sun was setting in the west, straight down the tracks; there was no city, just a sunset we were waiting to rush into. The sky had such depth ( Read more... )

E. L. Doctorow got an honorary degree at Hofstra's graduation this weekend. Then he tried to make his scheduled speech. As a professional storyteller, he critiqued some of the stories told in the past few years by some other folks. His transition was that politicians and presidents tell stories, too, and that whether we like it or not we all ( Read more... )

( Things done so far today: )