Another year, another batch of those short-lived art forms that are carved pumpkins. This year, much to my delight, the kids did theirs almost entirely on their own. We also tried something new that worked pretty well–Saral Transfer paper. This stuff goes right on the pumpkin, then the design gets put on top of that…
Friday night, my long-time friend David Stern emailed me that his father, Jack, had passed away after a long battle with Alzheimer’s. I hadn’t seen him in ages, but he was a fun guy when I was 14 and he was making goofy jokes about salt air. A few months ago, my good friend Linda’s…
This evening found me in Baltimore with a friend getting to see a live performance by David Sedaris, one of the funniest writers I know. I was afraid that seeing him would be one of those exercises where the author just reads the stuff everyone knows, trying to promote his new book (it IS a…
It took months, but after a number of false starts, difficulty finding the right jersey, time taken getting up to visit Mr. Manning, my mom got upstairs to her neighbor, Eli Manning, QB for the NY Giants and got the lovely jersey she bought signed. She also took care of getting it framed and here…
Several times over the past few weeks I’ve seen what looked like a huge hamster with a think brown tail. Guesses as to what the creature was were forthcoming, ranging from a groundhog (my original guess) to a pony (katie’s guess) to a badger (ellen’s guess). Fortunately for all of us, my guess was correct,…
Home alone for 2 weeks, I ordered a pizza 2 days ago, ate 3 slices, and have a big ‘ole bunch of leftovers. So, trying to decide what to do with them, I came up with the following idea, which came out really well: 1, Take 2 slices of pizza, preferably the same size. They…
The other day, the kids were home and Ellen was bored so Kim gave here some modeling clay. She made George Washington, as pictured below. And really, why not?
A few weeks ago, Katie decided that she needed to write a newspaper. Her first thought, I believe, was that she would sell it to our neighbors. That’s my little capitalist right there. However, quickly abused of this notion by us, she decided to write it anyway and spent quite a bit of time writing…
kim related this story, as told to her by one of the counsellors at MSU camp: Gary, one of the counsellors, stopped Katie and said that he was heading over to where Ellen was, and did she have any message to pass on to her. Katie: tell her “me wuv you” So Gary dutifuly passes…
Although there is nothing “funny” about homelessness, there are some who clearly attempt to use their wits to gain an advantage to grab the extra coin or two. Here’s an example of such, and although I usually don’t give these folks anything but food if I have some, I stopped after passing him and returned…