Month: July 2003

I’m heading home to New York in a couple of hours for the 4th of July weekend. Try not to break anything while I’m gone.

In the meantime, here are a couple (1, 2) of pictures of the new puppy, Tucker, my parents brought home around Memorial Day. Have a great weekend.

“I believe that writers ought regularly to read the dictionary, paying particular attention to the etymologies of words, as a way of discovering and mapping out the skeleto-muscular system, or perhaps more accurately the deep and fundamental genome, of English. Reading Nabokov is a fair substitute. His perspective on his adopted home–I mean English–like that of all immigrants, is often far keener than that of natives, far more alert to the connective tissues of etymology, chance resemblance, homonymy, and foreign influences.” — Michael Chabon

Just felt like sharing.