From Minneapolis

This is just quick note to say that I am not a grandmother yet. The baby is seven days overdue today. I am quite disappointed with Minneapolis. Minnesota Nice is just a nice memory. The legislature has passed a "concealed carry" gun law and now all of the horribly overpriced downtown business establishments (all the good ones have been driven away or had their buildings torn down) display signs very self-righteously saying that they do not permit guns. (We are not talking about frontier saloons with sawdust on the floor here; we're talking about corporate offices and the Gap.) But I am trying to make the most of it, and I am busily scheduling visits with the many friends I haven't seen for years. Meanwhile Aimee wants that baby to come out!!! We went to a Chinese restaurant just now and I was feeding her big slabs of barely cooked ginger. Hey, it may work.