Now it's summer

Now it's summer and only now can I liberate my white shoes and my patent leather pumps from various boxes and bags because when I was growing up it was only dummies from California who didn't know those essential dress rules and flouted the conventions. White only after memorial day just in case any of us are also from California and don't know the rules. So I finally dug out my summer clothes which is just another variant of shopping in my closet and this time I found my favorite Hawaiian shirt which I thought had been whipped by the robber who likes Hawaiian shirts. Every Hawaiian shirt I've ever had has gone missing. But this one I bought when Arnie and I went out to Hawaii to watch his daughter run in the Iron Man Marathon. Buried treasure.

Today was kind of a watershed day for the household. Arnie and I both had to be out of the house early and so Kate went to school by herself. It's me, it's all me and my reluctance to have her swan around New York totally unsupervised. She is quite competent and needs to learn how to navigate her home town but I'm just having some trouble letting go. Besides I like taking kate to school. Arnie is in Philadelphia on a series of interviews and I was managing a science breakfast for journalists at the Museum interested in knowing how evolutionary biology affects human health. One of the direct applications of this bench science is software that will help track the path of contageous diseases, such as malaria or avian flu. My most favorite factoid was that stomach cancer was the biggest killer at the turn of the century and now it isn't such a big problem. My other observtion was that two of the journalists were wearing stockings with seams. Ok sounds shallow but really how
1930's.