Goodness, it's been a full week! There was completion and closure and celebration and all sorts of rich-yet-exhausting things going on.

I made my revision deadline for Theodosia and the Last Pharaoh, a three week turnaround of which I am very proud, then hot off the tail of that, our entire extended family (including all sets of grandparents!) went north for my eldest son's graduation from UC Santa Cruz. All of the grandparents have been amazingly generous and supportive in getting the boys th...