Watching the Ken Burns national parks doc with half an eye.  It’s all about Yosemite at the moment, a place where I spent one heartening summer, teaching children how to keep brown bears…

http://happydays.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/17/the-referendum/(Found the link at another blogger’s place.)

Today I made a comment in class that was refuted by a gentleman who declared that "some folks" don’t understand what it’s like in "the real world," but in his "extensive experience" in…

Tonight we were looking at belly buttons – your favorite thing – and you gave me a zerbert on the belly. So I gave you one back, and we traded zerberts back and…

Our landlord, who lives upstairs, just brought us some fresh cut basil from her overproductive plant.  It’s made the whole house smell amazing.  Mmmmm.