June 2011

Elephants Never Forget.

June 30, 2011

My mother got into town about a week ago, and it has been grand. My Uncle Al and Aunt Mo—two of my very favorite people in the world—drove from North Dakota for a visit last weekend, and all was impossibly raucous card playing and brisket making and drink quaffing, and my mother dug out and [...]

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Youth is Wasted on the Young.

June 17, 2011

Simone started Camp on Monday: The program is run by her preschool, and thus many things are familiar: same location, many of the same teachers, the same friends she’s been babbling on about all year (I’ve now learned their proper names, thanks to Simone’s much improved intelligibility—the last to be discerned was little Quinine, whom [...]

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