A couple of field trips
It’s been a colicky few days for Samuel. Now, Karin & I get excited whenever he burps.
Laundry has piled up. Fortunately, there are excellent new washing and drying machines in our building. We put about fifty percent more laundry into each load than we used to.
That qualifies as news.
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I’ve been trying much of the day to read the last thirty-five pages of Ross Macdonald’s The Way Some People Die, to no avail. It isn’t the book’s fault, either.
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My cousin Matthew visited from Atlanta with Megan, his intended. Yesterday, Karin & I took Samuel to an event at Matthew’s parents’ house called “Muffins with Megan.” I’m afraid Samuel stole the limelight too long. Everyone noticed how well-nourished he is. No one noticed his colic. He slept peacefully. Very shrewd.
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He also slept peacefully on Friday, when, at last sufficiently weighty, he was secured to his mother with a Boppy ComfyFit Baby Carrier and transported around the shopping mall. At Barnes & Noble, I found an omnibus of novels by Margaret Millar, the wife of Kenneth Millar (“Ross Macdonald” was his pseudonym).
The volume had some good blurbs:
“Very original.” – Agatha Christie
“Stunningly original.” – Val McDermid
“She has few peers, and no superior in the art of bamboozlement.” – Julian Symons
And my favorite:
“I long ago changed my writing name to Ross Macdonald for obvious reasons.” – Kenneth Millar
Laundry has piled up. Fortunately, there are excellent new washing and drying machines in our building. We put about fifty percent more laundry into each load than we used to.
That qualifies as news.
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
I’ve been trying much of the day to read the last thirty-five pages of Ross Macdonald’s The Way Some People Die, to no avail. It isn’t the book’s fault, either.
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
My cousin Matthew visited from Atlanta with Megan, his intended. Yesterday, Karin & I took Samuel to an event at Matthew’s parents’ house called “Muffins with Megan.” I’m afraid Samuel stole the limelight too long. Everyone noticed how well-nourished he is. No one noticed his colic. He slept peacefully. Very shrewd.
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
He also slept peacefully on Friday, when, at last sufficiently weighty, he was secured to his mother with a Boppy ComfyFit Baby Carrier and transported around the shopping mall. At Barnes & Noble, I found an omnibus of novels by Margaret Millar, the wife of Kenneth Millar (“Ross Macdonald” was his pseudonym).
The volume had some good blurbs:
“Very original.” – Agatha Christie
“Stunningly original.” – Val McDermid
“She has few peers, and no superior in the art of bamboozlement.” – Julian Symons
And my favorite:
“I long ago changed my writing name to Ross Macdonald for obvious reasons.” – Kenneth Millar