Buying and Selling

The biped's mentor, Kaylie Jones, just got a review in the New York Times for her memoir that is just out, Lies My Mother Never Told Me.

Here's a quote:

But it’s a bright, fast-paced memoir with an inviting spirit. There is real immediacy to the family portraits here, even when, as with the brother, who is mentioned only glancingly, those portraits seem deliberately incomplete. There is deep frustration: when Kaylie discovers that her mother has secretly resumed drinking after pretending to quit, she finds herself too weak to “do some anger work” (i.e. hit pillows with a foam bat) at her therapist’s office. There’s also great daughterly love for James Jones, as his daughter sometimes insists on referring to him, and palpable pride in his achievements.

Brooklyn Powerhouse

Here are some more New York pictures! The biped's friend Michelle sent these along and they are great!

Here's the book launch for Kaylie Jones' book at the Powerhouse Arena.




Here's Kaylie and the biped!


She's an amazing writer--the biped has been reading her stuff to me. Lies My Mother Never Told Me is a MUST READ!!! BUY IT!!!


And here are some pictures of me on the steps of a real New York brownstone!

Around the World

What a whirlwind! After that "Hurricane Bill" blew through here (and bent over all the hollyhocks!)...


... the biped and I left on a quick trip to New York City. What a dump! Fine, it's actually an okay place, but I think it could be a little dog-friendlier. I was kicked out of the Chelsea Market (no, it's not a grocery store, it's like a mall) and the High-Line Park!! A PUBLIC PARK!!! I was pretty ticked off, I can assure you. And I told the biped in no uncertain terms that there was no way I was ever going to live in that city. EVER!!

But he seemed to have an okay time. We stayed with our friend, Matt (thank you!!) and the biped went gallivanting all over. He went to DUMBO for Kaylie Jones book launch for her new memoir, Lies My Mother Never Told Me. It's an amazing book and is getting great reviews!




His friend Michelle was there. And all the folks from the Wilkes Creative Writing crowd.


We took some walks around the city.



The biped went to a Jack Tworkov exhibit that he said was great. Tworkov worked in New York and Provincetown--just a few houses down from where we live now!



Then he took a train to Brooklyn...


... to see his friend Jessica and her baby, Ryan. He went on and on about Ryan and how great he was and how cute and how much he loved him. I'm not fooled. The biped is just angry and jealous because I was hanging out with Matt and Peter the night before. What else was I going to do? The biped locked me in a box while he went running around! Screw him!




Anyway, I got over that. But not that night he stayed out until 3am!


Here's a weeping willow.

Sunrise, Sunset

It's Carnival time!!! And this year, that apparently means sky-high humidity, unseasonably warm days and sweaty, sweaty nights. The biped and I did a little sun-to-sun viewing. Not intentionally, but because neither of us could sleep, so we got to see the sun go down past Herring Cove....




...and come up over Truro.


Beautiful colors, but sleep would have been nice, too.



We found some fun things on our sunrise beach walk, too.



Horseshoe crabs....


Beach roses....


Little snails on the rocks...


And in true Mardi Gras fashion, we have a hurricane headed our way. We spent some time in the garden enjoying the flowers.



Like those hollyhocks!!



'Cause we know that when this storm blows through, there won't be much left.... :(

I'll report back after the washout!

Summer Wind

The summer wind...keeps blowin' in....across the sea...

And it often throws in a few old friends, too. We've seen a lot of our friends from the past this summer...here are a few more.

George and Julia who are in the biped's cohort at Wilkes...


and Jen and Vikki! Jen and the biped used to work together until he flipped out and quit his job to become a....well, I can't even talk about it. Who would give up a paycheck like that? Anyway, Jen and Vikki have the most beautiful baby Lucas, too.



The biped got these fabulous gladiolus at the Stop and Shop for SIX DOLLARS.



And here are some pictures of me doing some summer snacking and generally lying about in the sun. Why does he have to get up in my face while I'm eating?