Month: February 2011

Guest Blogger

All I have to say is that I may be leaving Davis in a month and teaching a single class at a community college an hour south of the East Bay starting in April. Much more interesting to my three readers would be the email Lulu sent me yesterday, complete with photographs. We talked about this fella in class today (Thursday). I wrote his name down on my arm to remember to show him to […]

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32 Years Ago Today

The excitement of Eleni’s birthday didn’t end with my previous post, so this is Part 2 of our adventures, during which we were joined by Lulu. She & I had gone shopping yesterday and made a sort of Jack Horner Pie for Eleni, filled with little practical things for her to eat, and to feed to dogs, and to cleanse babies’ butts with. Eleni yanked out her loot on individual strings. Meanwhile, Jason played with […]

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To Grandmother’s House

Today is Yo-Nenny’s birthday. She is 32 years old. We will all sing happy birthday to her. For her birthday, she and Jason and Emmy came to see me. Molly will join us later. I got my house all grandmothery before they arrived, vacuuming and putting up baby accoutrements. [Mom: what do you do to see all these pictures bigger?] So then, while Jason and Eleni went to buy diapers (they returned two hours later […]

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Is It Your Eyes or Your Technical Capabilities?

I have received more than one (two, I think it was) missives from people saying they can’t read what’s written in the photo in the previous post. This is the photo: So remember, guys: you click on the picture to make it bigger. Then you can read it as clearly as if it were your own mother in broad daylight. But just in case I’m being snarky and that’s simply not big enough, the message […]

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