Author: Annie

Duluth has a way of growing on you. At first I thought the bridge was ungodly ugly, and tried to think of various ways a concerned municipality could circumvent this metal monstrosity. But a funny thing happened as we drove and walked around Duluth – I started to like the bridge. I liked how often…

Yesterday was our driving up the coast day – and we picked a good one for it! No more hailstorms, hardly even a dark cloud (just enough to make the photos look good!) We romped and splashed and climbed on rocks, Atticus joined us and loved every minute of it (although he was a little…

One of the suckiest (is that a word?) things about this whole mishigas is the frayed nerves. Mine, Gerry’s, the kids, the dog’s – everyones. We try not to let stuff get to us, but it does. Gerry’s pissed off because – well, wouldn’t you be? Suddenly the guy who was the tallest in his…

It actually looks now as though I’m just wearing a lot of eye shadow on one eye. If I match the other eye, it’s not bad! I like to think of it as my Alex DeLarge look. I wish I had a really fun story about how I got it, but it was a taxi…

Not to be sexist or anything, but does it bother anyone else that probably 98% of the folks who’ve completed the TKGA Master Knitters Program are women? Myself, I’m waiting until they call it the Mistress Knitters Program (or maybe the Consummate Knitters Program?) I know that “mistress” has a bad connotation, but “master” isn’t…

We’re in a very golden time now – probably the best Gerry will feel until a while after the bone marrow transplant. They’ve cut down some of his meds so he doesn’t have some of the side effects, but he’s still feeling the good effects from the Zometa and steroids. I hope he continues to…

Evidently I can’t get that last episode of the Sopranos out of my mind. I actually think that what did him in was the onion ring – massive coronary, right there in Montclair (or wherever they were…) Yesterday I got to pay the universe back a little bit for the myriad times I’ve been ferried…

The response to the donation button has been overwhelming – humbling – and amazing. Thank you to all who have donated, who are thinking of donating, or who are sending good thoughts our way. Gerry and I were discussing the other day that – like just about every family – we have been in some…

Our plans on this hot, hot Father’s Day? Why, to go to a movie, of course! We’re thinking we’ll take the kids to see Pirates of the Caribbean. If Ger thinks he can sit for that long (doubt it) then we’ll join them. Otherwise we’ll drop them off then go have a cup of coffee…

Yesterday the loveliest thing happened. Friends came by with a bucket from the colonel, some grapes and carrots, and all the diet coke a girl can drink. It’s my weakness, diet coke. I don’t keep it in the house because I’d OD, but when I’m out of the house I’ll have it. My own version…