We drove into Cambridge so that John could hand-deliver his manuscript to The MIT Press. I was still printing out the monster – almost 900 pages of it – at 3 a.m. the night (morning) before we left Atlanta. He went out to lunch with his editor (who was kind enough to lend me a good neighborhood map). While John was doing that, I took Ben to the Boston Museum of Science (we used to call it the “Boston Science…
Ben has named the kitten Lila. She is thriving, and very cute. I can hear Ben’s peals of laughter when they play together. Last night, he fell asleep on the couch – she was nestled in on his neck, with one little paw resting on his chin. Awww.
I was in the middle of a coaching call yesterday (training a trainer on DISC theory and workplace applications) when a post-it was stuck onto the desk before me. It read, “Did you say that it was ok for your son to bring home a kitten? Call hubby.” No, I never said that (of course), but I had to continue with the call for almost another 45 minutes. When I was finally able to call home, it turned out that…
On the topic of how Jehovah’s Witnesses divide families, from the “Ask a Former JW” mailbag: Basically, the whole of my mothers side of my family are JW’s. She was disfellowshipped when she was around 18-19 but wasn’t told then that she was not supposed to talk to people who were still members of the religion. Since then she was married to my father who was not a JW, had me and my brother and sister, then was divorced from…
I’ve been missing in action, I know. I’ll write all about the following when I get more than a couple of minutes. Quick trip to the Alabama shore for J’s family reunion Visit from my cousin A Halloween/Samhain festivities Making some calls to remind progressive voters in swing races to vote (Moveon.org) Catching up on the hundreds of backlogged emails Preparing for a trip to see some of my family and friends in Massachusetts Helping J to meet his end-of-month…
I’ve been feeling a certain amount of (self-imposed) pressure to keep up with every action and every political development here. Obviously, I can’t do that. There are people who actually receive a salary to do so, and you can find them all over the web. Anyone who has read this blog knows that I would be disappointed in McCain and others for caving on the torture provisions, that I would probably rant on the strategy of seeming to attack the…