Happy Holidays
Stay warm, stay bright! Visit my Christmas/Yule/Mistletoe page. I’m on a blog break getting ready for the holidays. Be back soon!
Yes, I’m Saying Happy Holidays
Happy Holidays! Warmth, light, comfort laughter, love and joy to you and yours to all of us May your spirits be energized, brightened, and filled with caring for others. An important note on the so-called “war on Christmas”: Should there be some reminder that Christmas is a celebration of the birth of the Prince of Peace? How does turning Christmas into a time of strife set a Christian example? My greeting to you includes the holidays that I personally celebrate,…
Addenda to Murphy’s Law
Brown’s Law: If the shoe fits, it’s ugly. Law of Logical Argument: Anything is possible if you don’t know what you are talking about. Law of Mechanical Repair: After your hands become coated with grease, your nose will begin to itch or you’ll have to pee. Law of the Bath: When the body is fully immersed in water, the telephone rings. Law of Visual Probability: The probability of being watched is directly proportional to the stupidity of your act. Law…
Gramma
My grandmother, whose 90th birthday will be this March, was admitted into the hospital with congestive heart failure. She lives alone. She suddenly started to feel very weak, and was smart enough to ask a neighbor to take her to the doctor – who immediately admitted her to the hospital. She’s had major heart surgery, so this is a big deal. She seems to be doing all right at the moment, but that was a big scare. I’m not sure…
Water as Fire
I’ve been cleaning and reorganizing the house. We are about ready to do some minor renovations and repairs. I had a list. Had. Yes. But you see, there was this little problem. Our alarm system has been acting funny since we got back. Going off at 3 am, not responding to a turn-off command. We are really, really popular with our neighbors at the moment. We weren’t able to get our protection company to come over and service the thing…
Massachusetts Part 3
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…