The kids get used to the winters faster than their parents!
But I know that's not the most important kid-related consideration

I wish I could read the entire article anew in this light

It gets better

I'm always here if you need someome to talk to about this feeling

maybe he just really loves blowing out candles

quick
under the blankets
it's our only hope

I am enjoying reading about how the various groups of gangsters, with their valuable overseas cargoes, independently reinvented the Renaissance Italian concept of "insurance"

Forget where I read it but most BP agents are from southern Texas and Arizona, in those counties it's historically a well paying job where you can still have dinner with your mother once or more per week

that slogan is Jehovahs Witnesses

It snowed today. Worked on Napoleon.

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/10/f...

Lives in Venice but can't cross to any other islands, garlic and crosses evvvvverywhete

I've heard several people--my wife, novelist Lydia Kiesling-- announce plainly that if they ever became terminally ill they would immediately go out for cigarettes. But this is another level.

remember Guiseppe Dracolini, Italian vampire?

house style

He jumped off the couch and landed with a sort of splat, even though we spent $120 on a ramp for him to get up and down from the couch. This must be how it feels to have a child drop out of NYU after you filled out the FAFSA and whatnot, though probably only a twentieth as bad.

I was watching MASTERMIND and then there's the Louvre thing and, like, who would buy stolen art? That you can't show to anyone because it's a crime? But then I reflected on how much I enjoy owning 30 ROCK memorabilia even though everyone in my life thinks it's pointless and weird

He also doesn't deny being a "serial liar" which makes the whole thing a brain-overheating logic puzzle!