A beautiful, warm day! We went swimming yesterday evening after my daughter’s hula class.

Every flight attendant’s worst nightmare, this true tale from the New York Times made me laugh. I will never look at an overhead bin the same way.

Did you hear me talking about my family’s unusual Thanksgiving tradition on NPR’s All Things Considered on Thanksgiving?

This year it was a Santa Claus pinata.
You can read about it here.

I mentioned that I’ve become a member of the Association of Personal Historians, and I just listened to an interesting “This I Believe” audio story by Stefani Twyford, one of its members, on Houston Public Radio. She talks about family stories and working as a personal historian. From her essay:
Each time I coax a story out of a client, I am excited at the richness of each person’s experience. When the son or daughter of a subject says, “I’ve never heard that! How did you get that story out of her?” I …