A good spanking - then we go home

overcast, mild, temps 65

Heading down to breakfast - had a GREAT dinner last night. Within easy walk of the hotel. past quite a seedy bar. As we walked by an older woman came out and said to the bouncer, 'Daddy spanked me and now it's time to go home.'

Hmm.

Just wanted to let you know about today's events, if you're in the Boston area.

I have a stock signings at Porter Square Books - 25 White Street in Porter Square - at 5pm. This is VERY informal and is mostly me just signing the books the store has on hand. Not really a formal 'public' event - but the public is welcome and I'd love to see you.

The actual event is at 7pm at Harvard Coop (now a Barnes and Noble). I want to call it Hardvard Co op, but people seem to call it Coop, as in chicken. It's in Harvard Square and I'll be giving a talk about the books, and doing a signing.

I'd love to see you there, if you can make it!

Michael and I think we'll do a bus tour of Boston - one of those 'jump on and off' tours. While we've been to the city before it was always on someone else's agenda so it's beyond delightful to discover 'our' Boston and how much we enjoy it.

See you later today, if you can make it - and might even blog later - but I did want to get out the info on the events since quite a few people were asking and I realized I'd been vague, which apparently isn't good with public events.

Speak soon...

Not ready for my close-up or 'Interview of the living dead"

mainly sunny, warm, highs 73

We're in Boston! Short post today since we just had a nap and heading off for 7pm reservations for dinner at Legal Seafood on Stuart. Love Boston! Drive very easy. Got up at 4am, left at 5. Split drive with Michael, though he did the worst part and probably the longest, including entering the city.

We stopped off the 91 at a placed called Wells Something (something is mine, not the town name - wells river? lake?) at a truck stop for breakfast. Everyone, including the border guard recommended it. P&H truck stop - or something. Had the BEST Western omelette with cinnamon raisin toast. Almost bought a home and moved in.

Arrived in time for 1pm TV interview - which was fun. BATV turns out to stand for Brookline Access TV - local cable. In an old school. No camera person, a florescent light kept going off and on during the taping. No make-up person and I had the biggest blemish on my forehead so that I looked as though I'd been shot. The poor host, Diane, was totally relaxed and professional. And - miracle of unexpected miracles - she's read the book! And we had 30 minutes. Wow. riches.

It was such fun...God knows what it'll look like. Then, in cab back, all we heard was French. He was from Haiti and had a local haitian station (a rhyme) on the radio. Come all the way to Boston and first thing we hear practically is French.

Must be off - Legal seafood awaits! speak tomorrow.

Asperagus

Mainly sunny, mild, temps 14

Another gorgeous day. The asperagus is just coming up in the cutting garden. Normally I realize it's up when I see it in bloom out the kitchen window. This year I'm determined not to forget it's there.

How wonderful is fresh asperagus? My brother Doug planted it when he came to live with us for a year. We miss him - but thank God he left his vegetables.

We're off to Boston tomorrow. One of our favorite cities. We adore it. Quite a bit like Montreal we find - a very people-oriented city. We're going down mostly on personal stuff. But once the people we were visiting settled on what weekend would suit them we re-arranged the Burnham Library event (originally for this weekend) thanks to the kindness of Marty, and made arrangements to be in Boston. Then I got in touch my the publicists about it.

I'm fortunate to have two publicists (high maintenance, you know...all those unreasonable requests). There's Hector at St Martin's Minotaur. He's absolutely fantastic. Just had a baby, and it hasn't seemed to have thrown him off at all. Though Hector sleep deprieved and Hector normal are hard to tell apart.

And we have Kathleen at Goldberg McDuffie in New York. They're terrific publicists.

So I contacted them, told them the weekend our people wanted us in Boston and asked if there was anything they could set up.

Loe and behond, they did! A TV interview tomorrow, and two signings on Friday. Leaves Saturday free for our personal stuff - which we're really looking forward to.

I'll be posting from Boston to keep you up to date.

We decided to drive down...leaving 5 am tomorrow - to make the 1pm tv interview.

Must run...lunch is ready. Just back with Michael and the 'girls' from a walk. Tons of tadpoles in the pond - and huge numbers of bass. Sadly our little duck eggs have been abandonned. And the ducks are gone. Feel horrible about that.

Will try to post again soon...be well.