Uh… well… I was going to start telling you about my adventure, and where I went… and why… but the crack squirrels in my head told me to just do the whole thing in order from start to finish, and the fist picture to pop up is of a carnivorous deer…

Awwww… at least she has a baby with her… that sort of… seriously, why are you chewing on a bone? I hope there are just trace elements in there that she needs for her diet.

Is there anything cuter than a baby deer? You can still see the little spots under the new growth of fur.

So, anyway, we went to my mom’s house in the hills just North of Berkeley to…

There are two of them!!! What was I saying… oh, yeah… Mollie, our 17-year-old, got accepted to a youth leadership pre-med camp! She lived in the dorms at UC Berkeley for 9 days, and got to dissect cow eyeballs and drill holes in skulls and practice sutures on chicken breasts… (Ironically, the ‘healers’ in my new novel practice sutures by sewing up dead fish… I didn’t know it was a real thing)… And Mollie was fascinated by a video and lecture given by a world-class neural surgeon, where the video showed him operating on a brain aneurism. That’s my kid! Some of the other kids passed out…

Look at the baby deer… hi, baby deer!

Oh… please tell me you aren’t going to let the baby chew on that bone…

I… gulp… don’t feel well all of a sudden… I mean, I’m sure this wouldn’t bother Mollie… but…

Okay… that’s better… this is too much to deal with, as the first thing I saw after unpacking at my mom’s house, where I waited for Mollie. And look, I have hundreds of photos. I will try to delete a few bad ones, and not put too many words on each post… but you might as well deal with the fact that this will take a while. The good news is that there are some awesome pictures, and I do tell a good story… so…

Baby deer!