Egg Dye

The joyful sounds of children dying eggs. Well, by now, they have switched to wearing goggles, mixing colors, and pretending to create monsters in bizarre experiments. Ah... the true meaning of Easter.

Time Travel

Nothing like reading a Philip K. Dick book about time travel (Dr. Futurity) to leave you feeling a tad displaced....

Books

I just finished Carl Hiaasen's Hoot. I picked it up at the kid's scholastic Bookfair. It's great. I haven't read a (grownup) Hiaasen book for a while. It's light and a lot of fun. I also read my first Elmore Leonard book, Riding the Rap. The perfect crime, bungled by greed, incompetence and laziness, and good-hearted cowboy cop who realizes the only person who understands him is a woman that uses her gifts of observation and intuition to be a beachfront psychic. A good read. Leonard wrote Get Shorty and about a million other books. This is cool, because I love stumbling across a new crime/mystery writer. I can only do 4 or 5 books by a mystery author before I am ready to move on. Y'know, you read one Hillerman book (or Haaisen, Dick Francis, Grafton, Grisham) you sort of get their world. Only Walter Mosley keeps me coming back.

I'm not such a fan of the icky books... Thomas Harris pretty much did it best with "The Silence of the Lambs" Here is my '89 cover.

By the way, it was snowing crazy this morning, here in NYC, but cleared up to be a beautiful, bunchy cloud afternoon.

Spring is here!

This week I picked up my first iced coffee for the year. We went for a lovely walk along the river. We cleaned the windows. We watched Howl's Moving Castle. It was great.