Archive for September, 2007

Singleton in Esquire

The last sentence George Singleton wrote: “She could look at Prison Tat Pat and understand that living with a lottery card-scratching drunk wasn’t all that bad.”

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Stephany Aulenback’s Crooked House

My dear friend Stephany Aulenback used to take over this site every Friday. Then she retired from blogging and had a baby. Now that he’s a toddler, Steph’s started up again at Crooked House, where you can at long last see mock-ups for Beckett for Babies.

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Happy weekend from Mamma & Granddaddy Newton

Of everyone in his family, my dad is said to be most like his grandfather (above, right). In personality, I mean. Not in appearance. The elder Newton apparently was so severe and domineering that his wife, Louise (above, left; not to be confused with Great Aunt Louise), rejoiced when her hearing started to go. No longer did she have to . . .

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