We picked up Ian and Brendan in Louisville and went to the North End Cafe for breakfast with Yale. We ate pork tenderloin, mashed potatoes, stuffing, cranberry sauce and peas. We are at Deb’s. My kids are home. It is good. Poem: Excerpt of “Christmas” by George Herbert. Public Domain. “Christmas” The shepherds sing; and […]

‘Nuff said.

My children are philosophers. Not surprising since their father was such, and the little time that they spent with their philosopher-stepfather must have affected them as well. Brendan the railer(he who rails against the MAN), Ian the searcher (he keeps heading East), and Caitlan the seeker of justice (she wonders whether India and Ghana are […]

My brother got my tag and listed Faure’s Requiem and that’s one of the pieces on my Canterbury Cathedral cd from Aunt Carol. It was very weird because I was listening to it when I read his blog. Last night I talked to my son Ian–he called me because my daughter had alerted both my […]

Have you had a confrontation with someone and for some reason, even though both of you know that it will have absolutely no effect on the outcome, you must keep the confrontation going for an interminable length of time because somehow you must end it with both of you saving face? I have. I did. […]

Caitlan got an interview to study at Oxford! This is extremely exciting, whether or not she gets an appointment and whether or not she takes it. Just the fact that she got the interview is wonderful and is the result of lots of hard work. You go, KK!

Got up at 6:30 a.m. (not early enough), finished packing, tea and banana bread, made copies of passport and credit card at St. Mark. Yesterday terrorists bombed three tube stations and a bus in London. Around 40 people dead. We’re still going. Left with Bob and Carol for Cincy airport at 10:30. They stayed at […]