Tales from the Raven

The stuffed suitcases are still waiting to be emptied, but I’m finding that after a summer of packing and unpacking, they can be ignored rather nicely.  Give me another week or two, and they’ll just be another piece of furniture I walk around.
Maybe if I put up a few pics from the summer trips, I can [...]

Today the kids were stung by a jellyfish.  First the R girl started jumping about in the water and yelping, then two seconds later her brother hollered and tried to jump out of the waves.  Somehow I managed to miss it, which I personally have no problem with, though the kids thought it sad I couldn’t brag [...]

We’re home, but still deciding how we feel about that.  For the most part I’m thrilled.  It was a fantastic adventure and wonderful visit to see family, but if it had gone on much longer I would have melted into a puddle of sludge.
Bloody sludge.
I swear we signed up for the non-violent vacation, but before [...]

We love to hate our dentists, but I for one am really glad they’re there and can make tooth problems go away.  Of course, asking that the problem go away may be a tad too open-ended…today at the pioneer heritage village (circa 1860’s) on the wall in the blacksmith shop was a sign offering tooth [...]

We made it safely to our first stop on the road west–the lovely St. Louis.  Yesterday we defied the summer heat and chilled with our black and white feathered friends at the St. Louis zoo,
then finished up an evening out with family at the one and only spot for truly divine frozen custard–Ted Drews.

A relatively busy night, [...]

As I continue rewrites on Popcorn I’m thinking about love and hate, and why it is that human beings are so difficult to satisfy.  As a teen girl I either adored the guys I dated or despised them, there was never anything in between.  Well, okay, except the ones I just didn’t take seriously, but [...]

My favorite keepsake from our visit to Yellowstone is this great lunk of a key that I found on the ground in our campsite outside of West Yellowstone. I literally stumbled over it, and then began the process of making sure it was truly an orphan so I could keep it. Since our camp was [...]

We’re not home yet, but I have internet.  Hooray!  That plus a soft bed and a laptop equal a blog, wouldn’t you say?  Here are a few highlights from our Yellowstone trip.
 
This geyser has nothing like the popularity of Old Faithful, but it proved to be my favorite.  It had an amusing habit of spraying [...]

On this beautiful Independence Day I’ve had the chance to see firsthand that our advances in artificial intelligence and robotics have come much further than most people realize.  These robots are able to walk and move much like human beings, and even do a pretty good job of talking like real people.  They’re good enough [...]

After quizzing the aquarium staff at the Georgia Aquarium until they must have wondered if I was some kind of secret shopper for all things fishy, then heading over for a two parts delight, one part misery visit to the Terracotta warriors (the misery was due to our arriving at the same time as the school groups), we [...]