One of the good things about having a famous brother is you get free cookies when he does a book-signing, and in the Q&A session you get to ask him probing questions that he has no choice but to answer.
Did you know there are people whose job it is to drive visiting writers around to signings? Laura, the delightful woman who was guiding Jay tonight, does this for a living when she’s not in Calcutta where she works with a nonprofit that helps prevent trafficking of women and girls. There were seven dependent clauses in that sentence. I’m sorry. Anyway, she has also rafted the Kali Gandaki where I’m headed in two weeks.
I ran into an old radio acquaintance who is one of my Facebook friends. In parting, Laura said she’d be my new Facebook friend too.
Oh, I also got to see my sister-in-law My-Lissa (The Giant Mole) and that was a Very Good Thing, even though she’s not one my Facebook friends. My sister-sister is also my Facebook friend. I am very friendly, as you can see.