he's back.

Holland

if you need to send an email to some of our recent poet laureates, a Whitbread winner, or Dweezil Zappa -- let me know.

leaving your "TO:" field filled in for an address change email is an effective name-dropping tool.

it's apples to donuts.

blimp!

happy about neighborhood cocktails.

feeling a little bit like Ahab lashed to his whale of co-ed idealism: another kid jumps his ship for the all-girl 1st-grade soccer team.

pleased to have seen the WPA mural at the Normal post office. www.wpamurals.com/normal...

a little bummed he left all his reading material at home and is stranded in his hotel room with his sleeping kid.