cake!

for some reason, in the midst of the many many photos he’s been sending me from colorado springs, kevin sent me this photo. i guess it must have been on there for a long time and he needed to delete it in order to take more photos. it was almost one year ago that jim...

NO CAR ALARMS AT ALL

It’s already early evening and i’ve managed to avoid setting off the car alarm all the livelong day. not to mention the fact that i haven’t dropped and broken anything, nor have i cut myself with any sharp objects. a good day, indeed. for me. right now. mollie and i...

p.s. another photo

here’s kevin with his roommates at fencing coaches college. one of the guys in in foil class with him, but i think the other guy is in sabre. something different, anyway. one of them is a pastor and one is an english professor. somewhere. teaching the english. with...

IT’S ALL OVER…

…i finished #7 at 11:13 p.m. last night. now what will i do? i’ve decided to go back and start at the beginning, #1. basically, since i last wrote, i’ve been trying to find any spare minute to read HP. last night i decided that i HAD TO FINISH IT. so i did. i...

i’m caught in the clutches..

of THE DEATHLY HALLOWS. BOOK NUMBER SEVEN. WHAT WILL I DO WHEN IT’S OVER? sleep, for one thing. it arrived in the mail on saturday, and i helped kevin with his whirlwind of packing for fencing coaches college in colorago springs, CO, at the olympic training center....

harry and the transformers

tonight kevin informed me that i haven’t written in SIX WHOLE days. where has the time gone? what have i been doing? well, we saw “harry potter” last wednesday, the day it opened. it was GREAT. not as good as the book, but really good. and BOOK SEVEN, the...

rehearsal!

you might recall that i mentioned i’m going to be in “li’l abner” at new salem’s outdoor theater this summer. it was a little hard for me to remember this because i haven’t had to rehearse and haven’t had to rehearse…they started practice a few weeks...

wow

this just in, a story in the indian paper “hindu,” they executed china’s former top food & drug safety guy. he was corrupt. yes, they KILLED HIM. i know that all the poor people who lost a pet because of the tainted food from china are saying ALL...

hot hot heat

it’s not the heat, IT’S THE HUMIDITY. makes me want to stay inside. this is the first summer ever where i feel that i don’t like summer. TOO HUMID. yesterday morning mollie was sniffing something on the bedroom floor – IT WAS A LIVE DOVE. honey the very bad...

ireland

what better way to celebrate the 4th than by looking at some dazzling photos of kevin’s bike trip to ireland in 2004? ok, make that just one lone photo. i tried to post more of them but they were gigantic photos and have to be shrunk down and i’ve been sitting in here...

happy 4th of july to you

kevin sent me an article about the various tainted things in china; now the chinese are saying that the media is making too big of a deal about the tainted stuff. it includes tainted fish, juice, and toy trains made with lead paint. this morning there was an article...