Book suggestions?

Hi friends, I hope that you are having a wonderful holiday season! I am looking for book suggestions-- I recently finished reading the Harry Potter books to my grandmother and she really loved them. Now I am looking for a new book or book series to read to her. She really seems to enjoy mysteries, detective stories, and history, but I'm open to most anything so long as it isn't too violent or R-rated. Any suggestions?

Birthday Week

Once again, it is the week (basically) when Irene, Jennifer and Jenny all age one year. As usual, it is also the week of Thanksgiving and a week that I will forget them if I don't post all at once.
Happy Birthday ladies! May you have (or I hope you had) a fantastic day followed by a fabulous year.

Breaking radio silence to be gauche!

Hello knitters...

It's good to drop in on the blog now and see you all again, familiar from knitting of yore, yet with new lives and families sprouting up. I'm doing well and loving being a mom (most of the time).

OK -- that's the breaking radio silence part... now for the gauche part -- I have a request.

I'm tutoring now and don't have the recent edition of Campbell, which I would find very helpful. Before I shell out $150 for it I thought I'd ask if any of you with real jobs might have an extra desk copy I could beg, borrow, or -- well, not steal! If not, I'll think about whether to remain 2 editions behind or shell out the big bucks!

Here's a recent pic of Andrew. We're not making it out to Lawrence this winter but hope to again next summer.

three of my favorite things

This clip combines three of my favorite things - Kingdom Animalia, Betty White, and the song Africa.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4hvZkBpUJs

(How does one make a youtube video show in a post?)

I'm off to Haiti on Sunday. I'll post an update from there.

PS - Check this out about a prof here

Happy Birthday Cheryl

Ecologist, teacher, soccer player, new mother and namesake for several (?) species of beetles, our friend Cheryl is a year older this week.

Birthday wishes

Celebrate Abby today and beyond!

Sophie Dorothy Berg . . .

. arrived Friday (Oct. 14) at a healthy size (7 lb. 10 oz. and 19.5 inches). She and Beth are still in the hospital (c-section because Sophie was breach) but should be returning home very soon.
Obviously, she's a beautiful young thing and hoping for early admission to the Starfleet Academy.
Welcome Sophie!