5/24: Read Karen Armstrong's sort-of biography "Buddha".

5/20: Celebrated Inna's birthday at Not Your Average Joe's in Aalington.

5/18: Donated a microwave—one of my last wedding presents—to Massbike.

5/13: Attended a lecture sponsored by the Friends of the Boston Harbor Islands about the Big Dig's reclamation of Spectacle Island, formerly the site of a quarantine hospital, two brothels, a horse rendering plant, and Boston's trash dump for forty years. The new park, once a 60-foot mountain of garbage, will open next month.

5/12: Finished reading Jack Kornfield's "A Path With Heart" at today's jury duty service, then saw Karl Haglund, author of "Inventing the Charles River", speak at the BPL.

5/1: Got out of painting Inna's room (again) by attending a beginners' workshop at CIMC.

4/29: Finished reading Dr. Paul Brand's "The Gift of Pain" as research for a long-awaited Dargon story.

4/27: Went to my first Vipassana meditation session at the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center.

4/26: Distributed DargonZine 17-3, featuring the final chapter of Dafydd's epic five-year, 38-part Talisman novella!

4/23: Went to a lecture on the history of Concord's Walden Pond at Harvard Book Store by author and historian W. Barksdale Maynard.

4/19: After a great 60-mile Patriots Day ride, met up with DargonZine writer Rich Niro, who was up to watch the Boston Marathon.

4/18: Photographed the Colonial Basset Hound Rescue organization's annual "Patriot Plod" parade on the Common.

4/17: Saw the Buddhist film "Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter ...and Spring" with Inna.

4/7: Lured Inna & Liz out to a reading from "Beginning Mindfulness: Learning the Way of Awareness" by author Andrew Weiss at the Harvard Coop.

4/4: Photographed the Dutch clipper Stad Amsterdam, which was in port for a visit.

4/2: Received the 5.0 upgrade to my DeLorme Topo USA mapping software, and finished reading Natalie Goldberg's "Writing Down the Bones".