Wow, can't wait for the header on this one to hit the adbot!
Okay, do you believe that women and men, or boys and girls, are biologically different? Need the final nail in the coffin?
I'm driving home from the Museum of Science with the kids in the backseat and flipping through the radio, listening for 30 seconds and then scanning to the next station. I stop on "I Will Survive" and shortly hear a weird clicking sound. Mari is popping her tongue in time to the music and when I look back, she's waving her arms up and down, too, dancing in the carseat.
Saturday, June 10, 2006
Google ads
You may have noticed that I've "sold out" and have a Google ad box floating above this post. This is my pathetic way to earn a few pennies per click, so feel free to just click on it randomly throughout your workday.
Strangely, the ad on it right now (June 10), correlated to all my posts up to now, is for "Bridezilla." Huh? Must be because I've written about... jumping on beds?
Strangely, the ad on it right now (June 10), correlated to all my posts up to now, is for "Bridezilla." Huh? Must be because I've written about... jumping on beds?
Wednesday, June 07, 2006
Book Review: Smart Moves for the Liberal Arts Grad
So as part of our fun packed Memorial Day weekend (yes, I'm still behind), we went to a party for Suzanne Greenwald, one of the authors of Smart Moves for Liberal Arts Grads. I haven't read the book through, but flipping around I find it extremely readable (they're mini-biographies, after all), and with lots of tips highlighted in the margins and at the end of each bio.
I also love the fact that there's a separate forward for parents that basically says, "Don't Panic!"
Good gift for recent grads, parents of recent grads, or people in college now. Probably not freshman, but maybe a junior who's decided to major in philosophy but doesn't know what that means for her future.
Oh, here's their website with profiles of the authors.
I also love the fact that there's a separate forward for parents that basically says, "Don't Panic!"
Good gift for recent grads, parents of recent grads, or people in college now. Probably not freshman, but maybe a junior who's decided to major in philosophy but doesn't know what that means for her future.
Oh, here's their website with profiles of the authors.
Tuesday, June 06, 2006
Monday, June 05, 2006
Like a dog
Lots to report but haven't had time to write, sorry.
The funniest thing that happened in the past couple weeks was when it was hot and we had the kiddie pool out in the backyard.
The kids were running around naked, getting in and out of the pool and then Mari suddenly stopped on the grass in front of me and I smelled something stinky. Yes, she had just pooped standing up.
Austin, horrified, kept yelling, "Mari just went poo poo -- like a dog!"
The funniest thing that happened in the past couple weeks was when it was hot and we had the kiddie pool out in the backyard.
The kids were running around naked, getting in and out of the pool and then Mari suddenly stopped on the grass in front of me and I smelled something stinky. Yes, she had just pooped standing up.
Austin, horrified, kept yelling, "Mari just went poo poo -- like a dog!"
Thursday, May 18, 2006
Voting
Remember Lani Guinier? Clinton nominated her for AG but she had nanny problems -- hey she kind of jump started Caitlin Flanagan's career and this whole immigration mishegas!
Anyway, there's a nice interview with her here where she talks about why the American system of democracy is unfair and suppresses voting, and is generally demoralizing.
"We’re still operating with an eighteenth-century notion of democracy and with eighteenth-century technology in the twenty-first century." Lani Guinier
Anyway, there's a nice interview with her here where she talks about why the American system of democracy is unfair and suppresses voting, and is generally demoralizing.
"We’re still operating with an eighteenth-century notion of democracy and with eighteenth-century technology in the twenty-first century." Lani Guinier
Monday, May 15, 2006
Rain
It's been raining here.
It's been raining for a week.
They say it's going to rain all this week.
I'm not talking about Seattle-esque misting every day. It's been pouring.
Thank goodness our basement is dry and we're fine, but people on the North Shore have rivers overflowing their banks and streets are flooded.
They say it's going to be the worst water disaster since the Hurricane of 1938.
It's been raining for a week.
They say it's going to rain all this week.
I'm not talking about Seattle-esque misting every day. It's been pouring.
Thank goodness our basement is dry and we're fine, but people on the North Shore have rivers overflowing their banks and streets are flooded.
They say it's going to be the worst water disaster since the Hurricane of 1938.
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Reading
Recently Austin has done something really cute: he reads to Mari. He'll sit and read Brown Bear Brown Bear to her, or even a Chinese book we have about balloons. I especially like when he reads The Monster at the End of This Book because he doesn't know the words but just tells the story.
Some recent favorite books: Traction Man is Here! by Mini Grey; The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordecai Gerstein; and comic books (Justice League Unlimited and Bongo Comics [Simpsons characters] that we got for free on Free Comic Book Day {Saturday})
Mari still likes Each Peach Pear Pie and Dr Seuss' ABC.
Some recent favorite books: Traction Man is Here! by Mini Grey; The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordecai Gerstein; and comic books (Justice League Unlimited and Bongo Comics [Simpsons characters] that we got for free on Free Comic Book Day {Saturday})
Mari still likes Each Peach Pear Pie and Dr Seuss' ABC.
Recent pix
At the Eric Carle Museum in Amherst, MA:
Hand me down skis! Never too early.
Sitting on Steve's steps, waiting.
Found an Egg! The Easter hunt continues
Hand me down skis! Never too early.
Sitting on Steve's steps, waiting.
Found an Egg! The Easter hunt continues
Tuesday, May 02, 2006
Boston traffic
From today's Boston Globe:
"It was an exhausting day and game, emotionally more than physically. At 3:30 p.m., a lineup was posted with Doug Mirabelli, acquired yesterday from the Padres, catching. By 3:45, Jason Varitek's name was in the lineup instead. Mirabelli's charter landed at Logan at 6:48, and his police escort arrived at the ballpark at 7, giving Mirabelli 12 minutes to collect his thoughts and get into uiform."
Twelve minutes from Logan to Fenway!? 720 seconds? Okay, he had a police escort, but still -- what route did he take!?
"It was an exhausting day and game, emotionally more than physically. At 3:30 p.m., a lineup was posted with Doug Mirabelli, acquired yesterday from the Padres, catching. By 3:45, Jason Varitek's name was in the lineup instead. Mirabelli's charter landed at Logan at 6:48, and his police escort arrived at the ballpark at 7, giving Mirabelli 12 minutes to collect his thoughts and get into uiform."
Twelve minutes from Logan to Fenway!? 720 seconds? Okay, he had a police escort, but still -- what route did he take!?
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