Monday to Friday

Monday mornings for the past 3 years I have been meeting a group of writers to free-write. It's a great way to start the week.

This week, the group consisted of myself and zoe_trope. She posted her writing on one of the topics here a few days ago. Here is my writing on the same subject, "orange and red."

( read 20 minutes' writing on orange and red )

Climate in the news

A couple of things worth sharing came to my attention this morning:

2 perspectives on a Pentagon report regarding global climate change:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040222/sc_afp/britain_us_environment_040222221313

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/02/25/MNG0O57R4R1.DTL

and business news about investors wanting to know more about business' effects on the climate:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/27/business/27green.html

And finally, regarding that baseball that lost the Cubbies the World Series:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/27/sports/baseball/27CURS.html?8hpib

16 weeks, 5 days

Quick check-up this afternoon, all is well in babyland. I've gained a couple of pounds (not sure how many, I'm wearing different shoes) and grown a couple of centimeters (in the belly only, unfortunately -- I'll never be any taller) and the pow pow pow of the baby's heart beats about 150 times/minute.