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You know the earlier blog that I wrote about snow not being magical? Well, I have to take it back. It’s snowing here. Snowing enough that I was reminded of snow in northern [...]

This weekend was not relaxing, but it was very family. We did breakfast with Santa at the Misourri Botanical Gardens on Saturday. We got up earlier for it, than we do for school. [...]

Yesterday was the first of December. We woke to some serious snow flurries. They were those huge fluffy flakes. The kind that if it keeps up pile up rapidly if the ground is cold [...]

One of the interesting things about all the journalists asking so many questions in such a concentrated space of time was that it made me think about things that I hadn’t [...]

I realize I haven’t mentioned our publicist Elana in any of these blogs yet. She deserves a mention because she was wonderful. I love having people who are good at their [...]

When Jon and I got on the plane from Italy to take us home, the airline personnel kept saying, happy holidays. We both wondered what the heck they were talking about, what [...]

The interviewing process in Italy is very different from the United States. Jon and I got to sit in our hotel and the journalists, photographers, television, radio (with one, or [...]

Must stay awake. Must stay awake. If we go to sleep now we won’t sleep tonight. Must fight the jet lag. Evil jet lag. I’m going to get up and keep moving. Even sitting [...]

We didn’t have internet access in Italy. Not reliably, at all. So we couldn’t put up any blog entries. But now we’re home and the internet is ours once more. [...]

We leave Friday for Italy. Our Italian publishers wanted us to do a tour for them, and we finally ran out of excuses. Yeah, the evil bastards flying us to Milan and Rome. Forcing [...]