In Boston until Sunday, when I go to Vermont. Lovely here– snow fell yesterday and we went to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. I misread the website for the museum– thinking that the Costumes of Edith Head was an exhibit, when in fact it is a film series. So we walked around the [...]

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Back from Utah. What a glorious trip! This is my third (fourth?) trip to St. George, Utah for work on my book but this time I really felt a much stronger sense of place–which I hope (no, I believe) I can convey in the book. Some days I just sat outside in the red rock [...]

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As many of you probably know, I’m in St. George (the very southern-most part of), Utah, working on my book. It’s been amazing here– my own little private writing residency. I highly recommend doing this: go to someplace inexpensive and check into a hotel for a week. Mine is 39 bucks a night–the Econolodge. My [...]

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Heading to Utah tomorrow, but spent Sat. and Sunday in Las Vegas seeing the family. Today I went to the Atomic Testing Museum. Very strange. Very fascinating. In the museum there was a 13 minute movie about the Atomic Bomb and Testing in Nevada. They must have put speakers or something under the floor and [...]

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F. Scott Fitzgerald, in a letter dated July 29, 1940 once said about Hollywood: Isn’t Hollywood a dump—in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at a new low of debasement. (from notablequotes.com) cranky much? Well, I don’t think [...]

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We had a lovely time in Monterey, CA with Ted’s mom. I’d never been to Monterey; it was incredibly beautiful. I loved that it had both forests and beaches. The smell of pine and campfire and the squawk of seagulls. The morning mist in the air. We saw and did so much. Ted’s mom is [...]

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I’m off to Monterey, CA for four days with Ted and his mom. She’s meeting us in San Jose (flying from Cincinnati) today and then we’re driving to Monterey. While we’re there we’re going to drive to San Simeon and see Hearst Castle. I went to Hearst Castle when I was about ten– and an [...]

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Lazy Bear was a blast. 5 nights in Guerneville, a small town outside of San Francisco, along the Russian River. 5 nights with 3,000 men in tents. Pool parties. Swimming in the River. Drinking beer. Cooking (once or twice) at our little stove. Seeing Eduardo camp. Dancing to good and bad music. Meeting many new, [...]

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Hi all, No blogging from me for the next five-six days. I’m going camping in the woods of Guerneville for the annual Lazy Bear weekend, with Ted, Eduardo (yes, we are taking Eduardo Camping–scary, eh?), the Jasons, Charlar, and Aaron from NYC. I promise pics when I get back. Have a fun, safe, happy weekend.

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I promise more blog posts this weekend. Just trying to dig my way out of a pit of papers and other work. In the meantime, isn’t this awesome? I don’t know how I found it; I was surfing the net, reading travel blogs (obviously not doing the work I was supposed to be doing) and [...]

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