I’m in San Francisco with my friend, Mary Lou Carney, who wrote the children’s book THE TERRIBLY HORRIBLE SWEATER . . . THAT GRANDMA KNIT, with me.  We discovered dim sum in China Town and ate sum!  In fact, we ate a lot!  The shopping was incredible.  I’m now decked in stone- flowered necklaces.  We’re enjoying every minute of our mutual birthday celebration.  (True, we’re celebrating a little early–we’re two days apart in October—but that doesn’t matter!)

Today we’re off to Fisherman’s Wharf and Ghirardelli Square and chocolate.