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The baby likes chewing on my desk. I think he’s a termite.

After more than a month of focused reading, Elaine has run out of Calvin and Hobbes. Now I have to figure out something for her to read next…

Shel Silverstein’s books of poetry are working as a stop-gap measure for now.

“Today is Hobbes’ birthday! For one of his presents, we got married! So it’s also our wedding day!” –Elaine

Movies that Elaine says she wants to make: “A Pancake’s Life” and “The Tea Creatures.”

Only twelve years late, I finally finished Star Trek: Voyager.

There were some real low points in there that made it hard to get through, but it pulled itself together pretty well by the end. And it had some really good sci-fi, mostly involving photonic lifeforms, that was very much worth watching. I’ll miss it. It was patchy. But it was Star Trek.

The child declared, “I’m going to try to draw a flower with this paper bag over my head!” A minute later, distressed cries as if the world were ending: “Oh no!!! It doesn’t look very good!!!”

“This must be my first day of ever liking cucumbers!” — Elaine

After much negotiation, the only good that the child will agree to eat is a bowl full of peanut butter.

Elaine insisted that we turn off the lights and both wear headlamps for reading her bedtime story tonight.

Editing and pie.

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I posted the above words, many years ago on Facebook, and my favorite editor asked in a comment whether the second version was a revision of the first… Continue reading “Pie and editing.”