so note earlybird, she never got home early and invariably later then she said.e patient. carla was an eclectic and captive reader and a 26 years at politics & prose. she developed an interest in american history, particularly intellectual history. south asian literature and graphic novels, just to name a few. her love of reading chorister through to others, including area grandchildren. george had told me yesterday that when she read she is seven years old, she hears nonreading to her. nonny is of course the name our grandchildren called her come the same name she called her own maternal grandmother. part of what made it fun was carless comfort with ideas, which she developed sitting in the adult political conversation that her mother and father convened at home in baltimore. our first meeting, which goes back to 1856, included our admiration for orwell. animal farm, homage to catalonia , the road to wigan pier anchored us. carla, ever pragmatic on political and policy choices. we had lots of fun watching the house debate on health care. she saved her choices co