The demicolon is a versatile (if a bit showy) punctuation tool.

In which we get chickens, and start gathering eggs.

I am a reader. According to my grandmother, when I was young I would set my alarm clock for 30 minutes earlier than I needed to get up for school, just so I could read. I don’t remember that, and as I am also a sleeper I can hardly believe it (though I do).
I do remember that I would stand on my bed at night and rest my book on the windowsill, where I could read by the light of the moon.
Recently, through Facebook, I heard from a person I …

My daughter went to her first-ever day of kindergarten today. It’s actually a sort of kindergarten orientation — two weeks of mandatory summer attendance where the kids get accustomed to their teachers, their classrooms and the routine, before jumping into school when it starts in August.
But it sure felt like real kindergarten this morning, as I walked her into that bright, cheery and busy classroom, and we put her change of clothes and sleeping blanket in her cubby, and learned where her box was for messages from the school. 
“Hi!” said …

I want to be clear that the person in the video is not me. I know somebody will miss that! It’s not. This is a post about someone else whose name is Leslie Lang.
The other day I wrote about a standup comic who lives in San Jose and has the same name as me, and then she saw the post and emailed me! 
And she sent me a link to her comedy act on YouTube, which is, indeed, funny. I enjoyed it.
I like her and we’ve been emailing back and forth and it’s WEIRD. …