Author Archives: fustianist

After a surprisingly quick drive in (4 hours and 20 minutes), we’re now in our hotel room on West 57th Street in Manhattan. Lincoln Tunnel was a bit clogged up, but the roads were pretty much wide open everywhere else. … Continue reading →

It’s the day before I’m due to give a paper in Manhattan, and I’m starting to think we’re going to make it, crazy as it seems to take an infant into the city.  We have clothes for for all three … Continue reading →

Taco Salad – Lettuce (from Sydney’s little garden next to the house) – A mixture of beans, onions, peppers, all from Sydney’s garden last year – Cilantro, which Sydney found growing yesterday at the same part of the garden where … Continue reading →

Sydney (according to report) successfully presented his second paper of the week.  Now we’re hoping for a bit of down time and gardening and papering time before we head off to another conference next week.  Then we’re taking a break … Continue reading →

A stuffy nose has meant that Katherine has been shorting sleep this past week and needing constant holding every other day.  And it’s rained most of the time, so walks have been sparse; having been caught out in the rain … Continue reading →

I’m having a bit of trouble pulling my paper together for the conference next week.  It’s a shorter version of a chapter I wrote last fall, so it’s not like I need to come up with a new idea, but … Continue reading →

I’m going to miss him, in large part because we have been having a good time getting our little family figured out.  Katherine is definitely going to make things more confusing, though; if I hear Sydney speaking, there are now … Continue reading →

And she has apparently decided to celebrate by partying all night long. Our babe, who was sleeping in four-hour stretches at night just a few weeks ago, has decided to stop sleeping for any real length of time at night–or … Continue reading →