You make me happy……and proud of the fight we fought. I don’t think we’re done yet, but it is good to rest a bit. I sure wish I were going fishing!

Wonderful that you have those memories. Some of us who didn’t have ‘em from our youth have tried to create them for our own children. Nice work.

Have a happy wedding, Norske. I’ve been following you for years, and I wish it could be comforting that we seem to be on the same page…but it all just makes me ….. wow, I can’t find a correct word. Beyond angst, tired to the bone, hopeless but not sad. Anyhow, congrats on the wedding and on your daughter’s MA publication. It’s the little moments in life that matter!

Hi, Girl! Yep, Friday night on my mind, too. Not that it’ll be particularly different, of course (retirement leaving time kind of ‘flexible’), but Friday night has some specialness to it in any case.

The sad thing, of course, is that the NO Times-Picayune was actually so, so important during the catastrophe of Katrina. Who will be there next time?

Well, dang, they sure are proving up!

What? What? Some Mitty-come-lately and his posse held them down and cut their hair off?

Heh. I have no idea. I don’t own one. And I don’t know how to text, either. But after TBogg’s latest adventure with the potty-mouthed southern creature named George Tierney Junior of Greenville South Carolina, I’m thinking I might want to learn some new skills. My greatest fear, of course, is that the Mitt-the-Pricks of the world will take down the internet so that we’ll be back to smoke signals.

Maybe I’m just an old fogie whose time has passed, but I do love reading my local Sunday paper and doing the crosswords and seeing what the local farmers markets are planning .. and who has died. When all of the professional magazines that I read went internet-only, I began to feel kind of outside the community.

One of my favorite comments from southerners was: “What are we going to use for crab/shrimp boils???”

Pleasant dream, Suzanne. And onward and up tomorrow. Your fans are with you!

His favorite interviews were with Martin Luther King, Jr. and with Mother Teresa. Well, yeah!

And does the one man actually pay all the expenses, or are the taxpayers paying for medicaid, food stamps and so forth? Everyone is dissing that fool with the 30 kids by 11 women….rightly so, I’d say….but what about these multiple wife families. Someone is supporting these folks, and I’d just as soon that it not be the taxpayer.

I’m still marveling that Dan Rather was on late night with Andy Cohen. If that’s what it takes to sell books, I just don’t know! Last moments were of Andy, Dan and John Mayer drinking shots. I’m not easily boggled….but I’m boggled!

Wow, robert, you’ve had some stuff to muddle through. Glad you are doing okay. And now they are saying that coffee is good.

Hi, spocko. Best wishes for your sweet wife. Gingerale. Soda crackers. I’m wondering what flu is floating around…..so many people laid low, as it were. And some of the coughies may actually have some form of whooping cough. Ugh…and long term, rib breaking, wanna die coughs! Best to both of you.

Oh, I don’t know that one…..I’m such a feminist that the idea of several women sharing the dipstick just makes me …well, anxious. But I can imagine that it would have been fascinating to try to understand how they think. And, too, also, I was so protective of my own children that I cannot imagine children being ‘product’…..but, hey, that’s just me.

There is so much mindless teevee….but then there are these amazing things we’d never know about…..like crab fishing! I found The Most Dangerous Catch to be actually stunning and interesting. A few night’s ago I saw a re=run of a show on PBS about matching service dogs with people who needed them. I’d met a kid on a plane not too long ago who had a service dog … his ‘wing-man’ for his epilepsy….and I was enthralled. But I learned so much about dogs in general and our common history. Just a wonderful education about how dogs and man go together. (Particularly touching since – for some reason – Jane’s February sharing about Katie worked its way up the myFDL list today.)

Okay, I’m going to be up for awhile….Dan Rather and John Mayer on the most bizarrely interesting show….Andy Cohen at Bravo. Why do ‘real’ people come to this show? Whatever……… sometimes I just get weary of political stuff and find mindless teevee to be relaxing. I should, I suppose, be ashamed, but I’m not.

Hope I didn’t kill the thread!