Instructions for eliciting good behavior out of your young children despite days of being cooped up in the house together, more or less, for extended periods for one reason or another:
1. Casually scroll through pictures of the devastation of Hurricane Katrina on the ol’ home computer until one of your wee ones comes along, curious […]
I’m really into these photos of airplanes breaking the sound barrier. The phenomenon of a sonic boom is pretty amazing.
I’m reading this interesting book River gave me for my birthday (and which I had asked for), written by Rebecca Solnit, called A Field Guide to Getting Lost. When I first unwrapped the gift, my father-in-law sitting with us burst into laughter, and scoffed at the apparently hostile nature of such a present for a […]
I am pleased to report that my children are successfully transferring back to their original elementary school. I have yet to receive a written confirmation of this but I understand it will go through.
Our whole family is immensely relieved at this news, since it indicates something akin to a category 5 hurricane simply passing us […]
In another one of these ongoing amusing attempts to place a monetary value on staying home to train and raise one’s children full-time, salary.com has an article about what a dream job it is to stay at home, and how much a woman who does it is worth. In base pay it is close to […]
Looks like I’ll be preparing to homeschool this year, or perhaps get a full-time job so I can send my children to a private school. I’m still trying to exercise a few alternative options, like the 5% chance that I may manage to get my two elementary-age kids back into their nearby public school. But […]
Rarely do I get so current or even at all newsy in this here blog, but this news about a new director—Anand Tucker—chosen for The Golden Compass has me very excited. The former director, Chris Weitz, quit because of “technical challenges” he foresaw in making the film a reality. In my opinion, if they can […]
Sometime between 3:00 and 5:00 am I was awoken this morning by the bizarre half-sounds of Alpha Blondy’s “Cocody Rock” irregularly wafting into my bedroom from downstairs. I say “half-sounds” because there was a box fan blaring slightly-warmer-than-room-temperature air in my general direction, which had a muffling effect. It’s the same sound that has a […]