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Visiting Warwick Castle
To get to the parking lot from Warwick Castle, you walk a quiet footpath enclosed in green and the occasional peacock. Walking this path, we were following two little English boys of about seven years old. They walked close together, obviously with the sense that they were the only people in the world. “I don’t … Continue reading
Christmas in Oxfordshire
Gene: One of my friends really likes this wine. Me: Whom? [blinks] Wait, I can’t say ‘whom’ there. Graham: No, certainly not. ‘Whom’ is the accusative case. Me: But that’s how one ought to address one’s boyfriend. In the accusative. Example: WHOM YOU BEEN JEEPIN’ WITH, BOYFRIEND? The grammar queen. Aw yeah.
The best Christmas present in the history of best things
The cough is on the mend and my mind can turn to different, less germy ideas. Though we had agreed not to get one another Christmas presents this year, Gene and I both cheated. Using one of Hope’s connections, he got me tickets to the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Hamlet, starring Patrick Stewart as … Continue reading
Wheezy Joe
Three weeks in Europe and not a blog entry to show for it. And you’re not getting one now. It was wonderful. Don’t mistake me. But I caught a cold abroad, and that’s pretty much what I’m thinking about these days. Because the cold soon passed into a dry cough, which then passed into a … Continue reading
Out the Milk
Leaving for the airport soon. It will be a 10.5 hour flight, nonstop, which is actually great because I am way behind on my annual goal of playing one hundred consecutive games of solitaire while listening to Rihanna and The Muppets. (Different artists, not a weird new cover band. Though I would pay good money … Continue reading
What to do when you lose your passport before a trip
Eight days before we were scheduled to fly to Europe, I realized my passport was missing. Three days before we fly out, I have a new passport in hand. How did this miracle occur? For those in a similar position, or for the merely curious, I’m posting my experience. WHAT TO DO IF YOU -LOSE … Continue reading
Things to do in London when you are on vacation and have purchased the perfect pair of comfortable boots to walk around in (you hope)
Now is the time of the impending trip when we realize just how many articles we foolishly signed up to write, to edit, and to assign before we go and we panic a little and start frantically setting up our phone interviews and then we give up and blog instead. Let’s stop focusing on the … Continue reading
Updatery
Gene realized he hasn’t really seen much in London itself, so rather than the mini-break outside London, I think we’re going to stay in town to see things, and take a few day trips as well. I’ve been looking at all the stuff we can do in London proper — a lot of which I’ve … Continue reading
London in December
It’s official: the plane tickets are bought, the packing anxiety is begun, Gene and I are spending Christmas in Europe. We’ll be spending most of our trip in England, visiting various friends, followed by a week with friends in Munich. But even with all our thousands of fans over there, we find ourselves with some … Continue reading
Shasta
Despite typhoon warnings and a general expectation of rain, Gene and I spent the weekend on Adam’s family’s houseboat on Lake Shasta. We did get some rain — just enough to spend a day inside, drinking mimosas and reading — but overall the weather wasn’t bad, and the trip was fantastic. Shasta is an eerie … Continue reading