To quote the first season of Saturday Night Live (and I watched it, too!), “Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead” — that is, my comment feeds are still broken. I haven’t had the time to investigate what went wrong (either a bad WordPress upgrade or a bad theme upgrade, or both) or how to fix […]
So Sandy’s car is kaput (of course, since she’s temporarily between jobs — isn’t that how it works?) and I am going to bequeath her my trusty Honda Civic and get a new-to-me set of wheels. Probably not brand-new. I’m thinking a gently-used Prius or Mini-Cooper — exactly what I was thinking these last few […]
Whew, week of shiny-new-job! I’ve posted my first post at the company blog. Expect many more — I’ll try to mention the best ones here, but you may want to subscribe. ALA is imminent! I’ll be at the Equinox booth, 1888 — at least half the time, anyway — and I’ll be part of the […]
(Speaking of reading: part of my “score” at an independent bookstore this week was Money Changes Everything, an essay collection about the love that dare not speak its name — I am of course referring to Filthy Lucre. I strongly recommend this essay collection for libraries, book groups, and personal reading; the essays are spot-on […]
Sandy and I called him the round-headed guy, and when the camera cut to him, we’d often crack up. Tim Russert didn’t have a poker face; it was obvious when he thought he was hearing nonsense, and in the last seven years, he seemed to be scowling a lot. In our book he was the […]
I will keep this brief as my writing retreat ends Thursday morning, and it is just flying by. However, someone at CBS News pointed me to this story and thought FRL’s readers would like it. I’m quite flattered, but also mystified by the association. FRL + teens + GPS? Though perhaps it’s because this blog […]
[update: suitcase arrived at motel at 10 p.m. Slept in my own jammies, Gottseidank, versus that Skymiles teeshirt Delta gave me.] I am not going to go into blow-by-blow detail about how bad air travel is these days. We’ve all heard it. But Delta, if you’re listening, would you please return my suitcase? You tell […]
The truck farmers have arrived in Tallahassee — or, we could call them, purveyors of open-source agriculture. This gentleman is at Lafayette and Magnolia most Fridays and Saturdays, and his sugar-sweet, flavorful melons made some scrumptidiliumptious sorbet this weekend. But I have been absorbed in my own “fruitful” exercises… ALA Techsource is once again actively […]
This Friday is my last day of work at my current job and I’m galloping through an assignment… well, it’s more like gallop, canter, stop and stare; gallop, canter, stop and stare. Anyone following my job moves since we left California is likely getting whiplash at this point. She’s interim head of systems at an […]
One crucial bit of information I left out of my previous post is that I’m going to Santa Fe, New Mexico in mid-June to celebrate my mother’s 80th birthday (or to shop and drink with my baby sister, depending on who you’re asking. She’s better at shopping, I at drinking). I know New Mexico very […]