Amidala speaking. MaMA let me play with her camera yesterday, and showed me how to take a good self-portrait (or, as humans today call them, a selfie). This one is a trifle blurred; it’s difficult to photograph oneself in profile. Ready for her Closeup I…

Happy Friday! Here is an outstanding post from The Ugly Volvo called Why You Should Never, Ever, Ever Get A Tattoo (but Having a Baby is Fine). It’s brill! The fabulous Fia Essen does the most wonderful graphics for her blog, and she told me…

Before I married them, The Big Girls (Charlie’s daughters by his late wife) had all but one of the sets of Richard Scarry’s Puzzletown. They had Dr. Lion’s Medical Center (featuring Flossie the patient), Farmer Alfalfa’s Farm (featuring Mooy the cow), Mayor Fox’s Town Center…