I had a particularly delicious bowl of pho with Melanie today, thereby inaugurating 2009 as the seventh different calendar year in which we’ve enjoyed Viet Huong together. Burned out on Vietnamese food? Who, us? Not yet. I threatened to tell a story on her today, and I don’t think she believed me, so here goes. … Read more
Maybe 20 years ago, my stepmother started putting together a Christmas village. She never cared anything about it all being the same brand, so the scale wasn’t at all consistent from building to building, which was and is an irritant for someone as anal-retentive as I about such things. A villager who’s in scale at … Read more
This is Charles and Kim and Alex and Melissa over at our house on Saturday night. Somehow (HA!) we’ve had seven kids (all pictured) between us: Charles has been my best friend for more than 20 years, and Melissa was Lea’s friend from more than 15 years ago. The six of us have been hanging … Read more