The shoes in Australia are fabulous.
We meant to go see the Opera House and do serious sightseeing but we stopped by the mall across the bridge first and sort of lost our grip. I bought $75 of kangeroo jerky (big family who need gifts) and a stack of t-shirts (ditto) and great [...]

I had a long post done with five photos, and then, in the midest of jet lag, managed to delete most of it. So I went to bed.
But now I’m up again and I can’t remember what I wrote about. Twenty-five hours of travel time. Krissie being outraged her card wasn’t [...]

I spent my day at LaGuardia, trying to fly out on Delta, which for some reason was having weather delays when none of the other airlines seemed to be having a problem. And now I’m in a Marriott, having been bumped to the next day. This gives me time to think, usually [...]

Whoa, I had that footed bowl once, too. Wonder what I did with it?
So today we went back to the cafe where Krissie had the tentacles and had a marvelous breakfast, only to realize that we were finishing at eleven and we all had lunch dates at noon. As Krissie said, “Whoops.” [...]

That screaming you’ve been hearing is me in New York trying to find an internet connection. But it’s gorgeous here, really the prettiest I’ve ever seen the West Village, and the weather is perfect or at least it was today. I got in yesterday, had dinner with Meg at The Spotted [...]

Somebody in the comments to the website post asked to see the B&B post again. I’m not sure if it’ll make any sense outside of the whole HWSW blog, but I’m swamped here with websites and novels and Bob sending e-mails about this damn island that he wants in the next book, so if [...]

I’m in Boston, having just finished two days at the Popular Culture Conference, my time travel back to academic life, and I have enjoyed it immensely, probably because I’m not worried about tenure or sitting on a committee. Or maybe it was because it’s the Pop Culture Conference, the best national academic conference to [...]

Lani Diane Rich arrived Friday night and I’d love to tell you we did sophisticated, publisher author stuff, but I’d walked all over NYC all day, and she’d been doing the editor/agent thing, so we just vegged at the apartment. The highlight of the evening was when we googled for the Ugliest Dog Contest [...]

My day started with a film crew in the apartment. This place is so colorful and funky that film scouts keep coming through–three since I’ve been here–and today a whole crew came through and they’ve decided that this is the place for the apartment their hero rents. One of them said, “This looks [...]

Mollie said, “There’d better be an On the Road post with my name on it by tomorrow morning.” It’s because Bob had one. Sibling rivalry.
So I spent a gorgeous day in New York with my brilliant and beautiful daughter. We had big plans that pretty much became talk all [...]