The television and Internet are showing me scenes of serious flooding and downed trees and power lines, and report that record numbers of people are without power in Virginia and that some residents of Alexandria and Fairfax County are being asked to boil their water before drinking or even brushing their teeth. My mom confirms […]

Currently the temperature has dropped into the sixties and we’re getting some steady rain, but the brunt of the storm is still several hours away from Arlington. The trees outside the condo are relatively still at this point, with only occasional mild gusting disturbing them. Jeff stayed over last night, and today we’re both still […]

While there seemed to be an attempt from the family as a whole to make Mom and me feel guilty about it, we did manage to do a little shopping together. We were out briefly Thursday morning so that Mom could pick up some things she’d forgotten to pack–sufficient underwear, deodorant, etc.–when the hospital called […]

Thanks for all the emailed and commented support, hugs, thoughts and prayers for my dad and our family. The bad news is that Dad’s health has continued to decline over the past week, with a rapid progression of the Guillain-Barr黠the good news is that, so far, his new kidney, at least, has been relatively unaffected. […]

Jeff and I were musing last night about what a chant would sound like if directed to a crowd of the indecisive or apathetic: What do we want? We don’t know. What do you want? When do we want it? You decide. It really doesn’t matter to us.

In the continuing saga of family health crises, car woe and appliance death, I offer up the past couple of days. Saturday, for example, while downtown enjoying the nice weather with Jeff, I started experiencing trouble with the convertible top, which kept reporting an error when I tried to open it. I did eventually get […]

I was just looking at my referrer log, and someone recently was referred to my site via a Dogpile search for “how to steal and capture souls.” Now, the page to which the search engine directed them here is just my photographs of myself, friends, family and travel, entitled “Stealing Souls”; fortunately for the acquaintances […]

Great. If it weren’t bad enough that my email accounts receive more spam than real mail on a daily basis, today my blog received its first spam in the form of a comment containing links to all the spam world’s greatest hits: online casinos, viagra, penis enlargement, lingerie, porn, etc. And unlike email spam, which […]

Last night while surfing DirecTV, we came across a Julia Child marathon on PBS You. During my irreverent running commentary (Jeff noted that it was like watching an MST3K cooking show), I reminded Jeff that I felt I had an especial right to satirize Ms. Child given my up close and personal encounter with her, […]

During a particularly but not unusually giddy PoCo (a la PoMo, my new abbreviation for post-coital, the coinage of which arose during this same PoCo moment) conversation this weekend, “Dzheph” (not his real name) and I were discussing–in the context of his predilection for handwritten thank-you notes–a possible niche for printed greeting cards for just […]