One of my favorite newly-discovered authors, Robin McKinley, produced a book in 2003 called Sunshine. I had savored her earlier young-reader novel The Hero and the Crown last winter and have since been searching for the sequel, The Blue Sword, at libraries. When I ran across Sunshine at my local library a couple of weeks […]
Rob Corddry of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” will now be taking over what used to be Stephen Colbert’s segment called “This Week in God.” Why? Because Colbert is leaving “The Daily Show” for his own spinoff, “The Colbert Report.” From the New York Times article on the subject:
“God has an exclusive licensing agreement with […]
I was over at Barbie’s the other day. She was catching up on some emails after a weekend in Hawaii, only home for a few days in preparation for a cruise embarking from Anchorage, Alaska. She has been on a kick to visit every state of the country before the year 2010. I can barely […]
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 […]
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 […]
The last three nights I’ve been having these wacky dreams where undesirable things happen to me that feel slightly out of control. I keep thinking I should record these dreams and then re-thinking and telling myself these are the kinds of dreams I might want to let go. As in, let’s just choose not to […]
Ten children visited my yard yesterday to play games, eat snacks, and create what they coined “Unity Village of Africa.” Each child and adult had created an original miniature paper house with a unique roof, some with optional organic decoration. We only had one figurine, seen here carrying a bundle on top of her head. […]
Last week I was visiting the Springfield Quad with a friend and her three children. I took a bunch of pictures of the gorgeous day and our kids playing outside. Not wanting to cause any rifts with my friend, I asked, “Do you mind if pictures of your kids show up on my blog?”
Her blasé […]
I hauled myself to the Sylvan Learning Center in East Longmeadow, Massachusetts over the weekend to take the GRE. I did an online tutorial to prepare for this test over a year ago, and since I completed it, we moved to a new house and life started to look a little different. I proceeded to […]