Positively Puzzled

Mar 16, 2004 – Julian said something yesterday in the car that made me laugh. I had just gotten a pedicure on Sunday--something I haven't ever done in his memory. He was very impressed with my shiny, painted toenails. I picked him up from school after a long day, and while we were driving away, he said, "I have to say hello to your toenails. I haven't seen them Allllll Day!" [Editor's note: This is Meera's story, in case you were wondering...] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- May 25, 2004 – Julian's thing recently has been to talk about how he can fly and live in the clouds. I asked him if other people live there, too, and he said yes, lots of people live there... "And sometimes they poop on people's heads. Except Superman. His poops are asteroids." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jun 8, 2004 – Whenever I laugh at something I read on Table Talk, i...

I didn't give myself much time to post an entry today. I will report that last night I broke one of the DVDs from my 17-disc Avengers Emma Peel Megaset, taking it out of the box. It was stuck to the spindle, and I heard the sickening radial snap that rendered it unplayable. I was able to reorder just this one disc through www.originalavengers.com...expensively. But I must have a full set of this chic and campy B&W classic. Besides, I think this disc includes the episode where Emma adorns herself with whips, chains, and scanty leathers. Thank you to Meera for gathering together eloquent moments in our children's lives, mostly reported in Table Talk , Salon.com's on-line community, where she and I have been members since around the time our first son was born. She recently emailed this around to family members, and I thought I'd include it here, along with some school portraits of the boys that I recently scanned: -------------------------------------------------...