I had a lovely trip through some of the prettiest parts of Missouri on the most beautiful fall weekend of the year. The St. Francois Moutains, in terms of size, are barely foothills in some parts of the world, but for Missouri they do very nicely. Part of the Ozark Plateau, they are one of the oldest [...]
Entries from November 26th, 2008
Thanksgiving and Tracy’s Decision-Making
November 26th, 2008 · No Comments · Holidays, Mi Familia, Travel
Wow, our party for Thanksgiving tomorrow has changed radically in the past few days. Unfortunately, it’s due to deaths in the distant extended family and hospital stays in the immediate family. It’s exactly what you don’t want to have happen around the holidays. So it may be the smallest Thanksgiving we’ve had in many years, actually, but [...]
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Portraits: Barbara Cooke Dust Jacket
November 24th, 2008 · No Comments · In Print, Portraits
Last summer, I did portraits of author Barbara Cooke, to go on a dust jacket for a book she wrote, but she asked me to hold posting about the photos until the book came out this fall. The Parent’s Practical Guide to Colleges and Careers: How to Help, Not Hover, by Barbara Cooke, is now available [...]
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The First Wedding with Silver Box
November 24th, 2008 · No Comments · Weddings
It has been several weeks since I last posted here, but that’s not because I haven’t been taking pictures. November has been a crazy busy month for me- I was out of town every weekend, and most of those trips were out of state. Every week has been a short week at work, and I’ve [...]
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Connecticut and Massachusetts
November 24th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Books, Endless Blathering, Travel
It looks like Tracy will do her fellowship in Kansas City, after all that traveling and flying around the country for interviews. Kansas City! I will have to carefully break this news to my family, who are all fervent MU supporters, but they will probably just pity her after this weekend’s likely bloodbath of a football game. Gosh, [...]
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Dear Little iPhone, How I Love You
November 20th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Endless Blathering, Movies/TV, Rants/Raves, Travel
Oh, it is pretty. It is so pretty. After a couple of days trying to puzzle out the settings on that Windows Mobile-based phone (and was a perfectly good phone, with great reviews), it is like having a phone that reads your mind. I marvel at its exact perfection! I have it in a soft [...]
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More Traveling, This Time to Massachusetts
November 19th, 2008 · No Comments · Books, Endless Blathering, Travel
I am doing okay right now, but I am going to be a barrel full of nerves tomorrow. Sorry for mixing my metaphors there. I can’t think of what the real one is. Barrel full of nerves, it’s not. Mess of nerves? Something like that? Anyway, we’re flying again tomorrow, this time to Massachusetts. Actually, [...]
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Back from Orlando and Columbus
November 17th, 2008 · No Comments · Books, Endless Blathering, Travel
Well, hello there. I feel like it’s been awhile. I did write last week, but it was in-between everything. We left on Thursday for Columbus, Ohio, and my sister came along. The weather was really nice, and we had a good time. While Tracy was in her interview, my sister and I drove by the [...]
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All The Stuff I’m Doing Right Now, and How It’s Making Me Tired
November 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Endless Blathering, Travel
This is the only full day of work I have this week, between two trips for Tracy’s interviews, and I’m a little strung out now that it’s over. We got in late last night from a one-night trip to Orlando, and we leave tomorrow for Columbus, though we’ll be gone two nights for that, and I realized [...]
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Obama Victory Roundup
November 6th, 2008 · No Comments · Links, News
A roundup of Obama victory stories and videos: Link: Obama victory, by the numbers. (He really did win. He really did. There’s no question about it.) Link: Reactions in Harlem After Obama Victory, by a Guardian UK writer Link: Celebrations and some skepticism by the world Video: Children in Indonesia, at the school that Obama [...]
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