Month: December 2007

Holiday Cheer

For a change, I’m gonna let the pictures do the talking, or however the saying goes. All you get is a bitteen of context: Dinner with Anna, Frank and Amy tonight. I’ve known Amy since before she was born, and this is the first time I’ve seen her for years. It doesn’t seem so long ago that I used to do my favorite baby trick with her. With “Airplane Baby” I’d swoop her infant self […]

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Au and Fe and Me

I had lunch with Mo today. (Actually, he ate and I drank Diet Coke, which I can ingest without discomfort.) When I got home, the late-afternoon trans-bay light was particularly brilliant. This is the tree in front of my house. My wonderful GP called to say my blood test results showed iron-deficiency anemia. I have to start taking 1000 milli-somethings of iron a day. Unfortunately, my first attempt was a disaster. Boy, was I sick. […]

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The Making of Plans

It almost never happens any more: that churning of the stomach that comes from anticipating something new and good. Tonight’s iChat with Jill had that effect. Meet Jill: Jill — Blog. Blog — Jill. Here she is with something she and her fella Lewis found in the wilds in Nicaragua. Jill’s been wandering around Central America for the past six months. Here’s a wee bit of our online conversation, which will show you why I’m […]

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