Dateline: Michaelangelo Hotel, Manhattan,18 September 2005

Yesterday lost to fun family stuff, like Kevin finishing 12th out of 40 boys in his grade-school cross-country meet (I do love watching/coaching him while he runs) and probably our last time in Nona's pool for the summer.

Today is lost to getting merged brief together with Steve DeAngelis for our conference tomorrow here in Manhattan.

One cool thing over the weekend: Neil Nyren of Putnam sent me my first copy of Blueprint for Action in final hardcover. All the changes I had feared would not be made seem to be in there,with the only easily spotted typos in the Acknowledgements (two misspelled names--one my fault and one Putnam's). But if you have to screw up, best to do it there. Reading the book for 4th time on way here and I'm more thrilled than ever that I got all this down in print.

Up too late futzing with the brief, as is my custom. Have plentyof stories clipped. Will have to get to them tomorrow, following my two talks.

I wouldn't expect a newsletter this week, since everyone is here for the conference with me and we value face time when we get it.