Birthday dinner

This is Barbara at the birthday dinner for her and my husband Buck tonight. It’s a bit fuzzy because I took it with my camera-phone. She’s got on an old hat of my mother’s that we just discovered (along with a loaded pistol) in her condo. The hat is from the Fifties, when Mom went Continue reading Birthday dinner

Mathematics and life

I have slept through my springtime sleepiness, and am noticing things are settling into their warm-weather demeanor. The afternoon is sunny in a way that just doesn’t happen in January, regardless of the presence or lack of clouds. What is up with the world? I read earlier in the print edition of the WSJ that Continue reading Mathematics and life

I have a color

I have a birthday color, and it’s lovely! Now I must contemplate it. Found it over on Pantone’s website right here. As for the rest of it, the dog howls in the morningtide, and I curl up on the futon in the TV room with tea and Don Quixote and my son’s incredibly lazy cat. Continue reading I have a color