[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] The sunset in Denver last night was absolutely stunning, because of smoke from the Lime Gulch Fire. (The wildfires are awful. But they do create a certain perilous, bittersweet beauty at times, and this was the ultimate example of that.) I was heading to Walgreens to pick up prescriptions when… Read more »
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] Tuesday was a strange day in Denver. After an awful week in which a terrifying wildfire down south, the #BlackForestFire, brought back the “state under siege” mentality of last summer, the drama shifted Tuesday afternoon from shadow and flame to lightning, wind and funnel clouds. This was a bit of… Read more »
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] Above: Photo Illustration by Hana Gartstein, via NASA, of Earth during a lunar eclipse as seen from the Moon. I’ve been saying it since at least 2005, when I wrote on my blog: More than once, the thought has occurred to me: “Man, it would be cool if there was… Read more »
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] Last night, during Loyette and Loyacita’s dance recital, there was an absolutely delightful moment when our 3 ½ year old daughter became that kid – there’s always one, or so it seems, at these little-kid concerts and recitals – who makes a hilariously adorable mistake, handles it with joyful aplomb,… Read more »
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] Becky and the girls walking on the beach this morning.
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] The view from our balcony in Miramar Beach, Florida, where we are on our first “real” family vacation since the eldest (age 5) was born. Yay!!
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] My original 30-day Twitter #hiatus period ended last night at midnight (although the extended #sequester continues), and the final count is 823 tweets – 590 of them during the Boston/West/Ricin “Week From Hell” last month, 233 during the other 25 days. You may laugh at a so-called “hiatus” that involves… Read more »
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] Two quick announcements about my Twitter “hiatus”: 1. In order to alleviate ongoing terminological confusion about the intended scope of the hiatus – which was never designed to result in literally zero or near-zero tweets; my original goal was 200 tweets in 30 days, and I’d be within striking distance… Read more »
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] My Twitter hiatus was shot to hell last week by the Week From Hell – a week that, as Becky put it on Facebook early Friday, “started…with the gruesome story of Kermit Gosnell, moved on to the marathon bombings, had a deranged Elvis impersonator send deadly ricin to Congressmen and… Read more »
Add three names to The Living Room Times Hall of Eternal Glory: Mike Boyd of Raleigh, NC; Scott Fort of Warrior, AL; and Ross Binder of Minneapolis, MN — champions of the 18th annual Men’s NCAA Pool, 16th annual Women’s NCAA Pool, and 9th annual NIT Pool, respectively. Actually, Fort’s name is not a new addition to the Hall of… Read more »