News flash from Our Nation's Capital:

Washington, D.C., is much hotter than Maine. Children complain about it.

The L. Ron Hubbard House has what looks to be incipient poison ivy in its landscaped front yard.

Headline in the Washington Post: "Ex-executive indicted in home finance scam." I'm sure this comes as a great shock to you.

Most dogs in Washington seem to know how to walk around politely without their leashes on.

If you climb the circular stairs up to Lucy's loft and lean over the desk and crane your neck sideways, and it isn't hazy, you can see the Washington Monument from her window.

Reading tonight at the Writer's Center. I hope people will come, but since I don't know too many people here, I have no idea. Maybe if they bring their well-behaved leashless dogs, the audience will seem to swell.