One of my oldest and dearest friends suffered a series of tragedies today when his apartment was destroyed in a fire. Please consider contributing to the GoFundMe campaign I set up to help him out. http://www.gofundme.com/andrewrothkin From the campaign site: My dear friend, Andrew Rothkin, is laying in a hospital bed suffering from burns and…

I celebrated my 45th birthday last week. It was quite pleasant. My husband, my kids and I went to see the final installation of The Hobbit in a lovely historic cinema and enjoyed dinner at the Irish restaurant where we almost always celebrate me-related milestones. Being Irish is a big part of my identification of…