Well, he didn’t get fired two weeks before Christmas, but this is still sweet! Williams retires as president of Greensboro College The hooting and cheering you hear is all the ex-employees of Greensboro College who were screwed over by this man in some way. Loud, isn’t it?

Because I’m such a weather junkie, I added Weather Underground banners for the places on our trip on the sidebar. It is 86 degrees in Skagway, Alaska right now! Can’t wait to tell the mailman, who hates the cold and can’t believe I’m going to Alaska. No Sarah Palin jokes, please. Unless they are really…

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That…

This was one of the prettiest days I’ve ever experienced in summer. Low humidity, high in the 80s, nice breezes. I slept until 9 am and spent the morning in the garden and the gazebo. I didn’t do a whole lot of work because Hip status: a little worse than yesterday. Uhn. I did manage…

Just woke up from an after-work nap. Now I’m sitting in the gazebo with an electric fan blowing on me, enjoying the fireflies that just began their show. My weekend started at 4 pm today – “worked” through lunch, if you can call most of what I did today work. I did get some files…

I don’t know if it was the steroid shot or just the fact that my inflammation was reduced for the first time in ten months but boy, was I energetic and happy last night and this morning. I still am, to a more normal degree, but I overdid it a bit so tonight I’m going…

Okay, I just saw what really happened to Terri-Lynn. She curls her toes in the sand, as Dr. Reynaldo Bellissimo, the hot young physician who cured her completely of cancer and whisked her and Liam away to this island paradise, rubs lotion on her back. She sighs with pleasure as Sven, the cabana boy, refreshes…

Holy cow, I kinda hate to complain because I know a lot of people who deal with a lot worse read this blog, but that steroid shot in the hip was a real muhthah. I had myself convinced that it might be a little worse than a normal shot in the hip because of a…

Slept a good part of the day. Sometimes it’s as if I just have to stop and recharge my battery. I’ve almost finished making a book. I’ll try to get a good photo tomorrow. The binding is very simple, but it is wildly and beautifully painted. I’m going to tie some beads to it and…

Best comment seen all day: “Thank you, Michael Jackson. Love, Mark Sanford.” Headachy, probably allergies, I hope. Came home early and took a nap. Green paper is dry and is in my super-technological paper press – a stack of boards and books. The one with the ginkgo leaves embedded inside is nice and I’ll have…