After downloading Songs from the Labyrinth by Sting today, we were just about to get our melancholy, 16th century, lute pop music groove on when… Lovely and talented wife: What’s a “digital booklet?” Me: It’s a PDF file that comes with the album. It has album art and stuff like that. LATW: Let’s see it. [...]

The Lovely and Talented Wife and the Boy were playing “Rock, Paper, Scissors” tonight after dinner while the Girl and I cleaned up the dishes. He’s got the concept if not the timing. After a tie with scissors, he decided to change up the rules a little bit… Son: Mom, let’s play rock, paper, scissors, [...]

Watch PBS? I was invited to participate in PBS’s guest blogging project Remotely Connected (my most recent post was about the NOVA program Family That Walks on All Fours) (Don’t look at the photo—I hate my photo.). It’s associated with their “Save your nights for PBS” promotion in connection with the Fall TV season—and it’s [...]

I just posted this at Flickr but I thought ya’ll might be interested, too: So, way back in August, I hinted that something big was going on at the fd house. Well, It’s been a very, extremely busy few months (has it only been three months?) but I’m in a much better position now to [...]

National Novel Writing Month is here. 30 days to write your novel.