I know I must be doing something right if my planned Halloween costume raises real public safety concerns.

No sooner had the midwest taught me to love deep dish pizza, the morbidly obese midwesterners bookending me on the flight back untaught it.

Trying to figure out how to carry a quart of gumbo on a motorcycle.

Transferred gumbo safely from backpack to stomach using bungie cords, a funnel and a rubber hose. MacGruber couldn't have done it better.

I am not above admitting I *loved* Macgruber, all 120 deliciously tasteless minutes of it.

If you have a Google Voice invitation to send my way, I'll buy you lunch!

My Tivo complained about my World Cub watching ambitions so I had to make some tough decisions. Sorry, Portugal.

Just bought the world's smallest TV to watch the world's biggest game tomorrow.

Going to Burning Man? I am selling my adorable and interesting Adonis of a younger cousin for the low, low price of driving him out there.

The French ambassador and I are scarfing escargot at the consulate's Bastille Day shindig. So sorry you couldn't make it.

Spring cleaning. Goodbye, serial cables with nothing to plug into and zipper pocket pants with nothing to stash inside.

We're moving to France. August 10. That gives you just enough time to buy me one last drink.

Found a Zip disk with my email from 1997. It's now in Gmail and I'm feeling nostalgic. I miss you, Bianca!

OH in the loo of a posh London playground: I'm done with my poo, Mummy, but I rather fancy another wee.

Popped my Les Miz cherry. Rock on, Victor Hugo!

In Scotland at a golf course doing what comes naturally in the ancestral homeland of the sport: drinking Guinness.

I've completed a in-depth study of the sheep of England. Expect the book to hit stores in time for your Xmas shopping season.

Milo broke his wrist. We're getting to explore socialized medicine sooner than we'd have liked.

Photos of one family's last few days at Berkeley Tuolumne Camp, up to the Tues night evacuation due to the #RimFire. goo.gl/xWpxkb

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