Does it strike you I should post here more?

It strikes me that way.

Who says I can't stop talking for 3.5 years?

Seriously? Who? 'Cause that guy's totally right about that.

After her big weekend with Nick Nolte 

The soporific effect of small infants: Study #1 

The soporific effect of small infants: Study #2 

I'm a sneakyninja!! 

It's her favorite holiday of the year - for the religious significance. 

Someone let all the air out of the new baby. 

further adventures in online banking 

It's so she can watch you live and breathe your storylines. 

Lena demonstrates one of her recent advances in theoretical quantum relativity. 

The authorities never did catch up with her, though the trial-in-abstentia would be the talk of the news media for months to follow. 

"Hmm," she thought, "yes, these two look like they'd make an easy mark." And thus was born a plan.

"Oh! I feel so terribly urban!" She cried, sending her uncle for more latte. "It's just perfect - the poseur bohemians, the commodification, the lassitude and ennui...! Oh, I swear I shall never leave!"

Nine Month Lull

You'll have to forgive the 9-month pause between posts. Think of it as a blog gestation - a pregnant pause of the pen. Now that we've been through the incubatory silence, we can expect a veritable geyser of creativity and lovely photos to rush forth, geyser-like, onto the vast volcanic flats of the internet.

Perhaps the whole geothermal metaphor is now stretched father than it should be. Much like the pregnancy metaphor before it.

Anyhow, eyes forward, feet front: prepare for new posts on an irregular but timely schedule. And you, Jones, spit out that gum.

Lena takes shelter from the high winds behind this conveniently-placed father, who was in the area, fortuitously, competing in a "Most Ludicrous Smirk" contest.

Zoloft is strength!

Then came the bar fight, and the blood, and the property damage. And then, of course, the recriminations.

Yes, father, certainly you're winning right now, but my time will come. You'll have to go to sleep ... eventually.