Oh hi. I can't say I have anything new to report. Life has basically been about work, editing and on occasion doing science. I am relish...

More of the same, yeah, you know, I have talked about it over and over again. Good points: I am healthy I have a roof over my head It is not...

Big yellow moon and apricot jam Cooler now, I can think.

Happy August. Today it was only 86 degrees. The garden, for all that we have watered, mulched, pruned and carefully tended, is toasted. It...

Hanging in, barely. There are only sixty days left of summer, thanks Martha for pointing that out to me on this month's issue of Everyda...

I am glad the MJ spectacle is over. Today, while driving home from the dentist, I heard his daughter's final words during the memorial s...

Thank goodness for a cold front. Lots to do and the heat didn't help. Good thing there is always the week ahead to tuck in a chore or th...

I turned my tv on for the first time since the digital switchover. There is still nothing on television worth watching. I spent three minu...

July is here. The year is half over. Ask me what I have done? Lots and not so much. I have weaseled out of two races and this year's 3 d...

I don't follow many celebrity trends. I get most of my news about tanorexics, infidelity, children stuck inside of culverts and the bea...

I started moving at 0530 this morning -- dog, garden, ppatch (5 hours), house, friends and all the time my mind was organizing all that need...

As lame as it is, I am going to revamp the blog soon. I need a new banner, new links and a new look. Why do I bother? God knows, but I am go...

someone has to marry the cable guy someone always ends up in the middle seat on the plane the pedicure you skip intersects with your need to...

dear Sun and hot weather, Go away, I'm hot and bothered and I could do with some gloom without having to leave the state. love, nm

I am still reeling over the loss of the Air France flight from Rio to Paris. All those souls and with not a trace. I take flying for granted...

I am in love with a five day old little boy -- I never thought I would be so fiercely in love with a baby. I am not a baby person, per se. ...

Today would have been better if I hadn't even tried to get out of bed. Really. Tomorrow has got to be better or I'm really screwed.

In case you are wondering, I haven't fallen off the face of the earth. I have been hurtling my body through the air hither and yon and t...

This afternoon I sat between my parents and grieved the loss of smart, beautiful woman who died much too young and suffered greatly. How h...

Talladegha Nights and a diet coke are all I'm good for tonight. However, circumstances did not allow for such sloth. I managed to do thr...