Circumstances make it hard to blog this week -- Christmas is always joyous, but was visited this year by a great sadness. I drove down to Staten Island to attend the wake last night -- it was all so horribly tragic. I won't blog too much on it because it seems so tacky, but for anyone who reads this and wonders why all is so quiet I'll just say we lost a cousin -- someone who was young and whom we all knew and whom we all loved.

So that's why there hasn't been much activity online in the last few days. But let me also add this: there better be something on this blog by the end of today. Something announcing the arrival of (yikes! could it be?) another Mastandrea.

The world pauses mid-spin.