Scenes from a life: my overnight bag, precisely where I left it before leaving the house for our trip to Chicago Friday morning, a crucial error realized precisely in the moment in which it was too late to go back to get it.

I find my intense stupidity makes life much more interesting.

Urban farming update: I forgot to check my garden for a few days, and I've been punished/rewarded with the world's biggest zucchini.

Will they be delicious? Signs point to huge.