2011/06/17 @ 6:30 PM
Kindergarten Education
When I was 5 years old, I had a friend who lived one street over, but our houses lined up so that we shared a backyard fence. This sounds like the ultimate in coolness and convenience, but my mother decreed that I was not allowed to climb the fence to go visit her. If I was invited over, I was to walk around in a civilized fashion and appear at their front door. I was also not allowed to walk over to her... read more
2011/03/15 @ 9:14 AM
And Then There Were None
Do you hear that? The house is so quiet. It makes me feel anxious, because I haven’t done anything for the puppies lately, so they should be noisily complaining, and the silence leaves me with a repetitive flutter in my gut that something is wrong. Yesterday, I dropped my daughter off at a class and came home for an hour and a half of couch potato-ing before needing to pick her up again. It was... read more
2007/05/20 @ 10:47 AM
Plungers
I am just posting this link because after first reading this article when it was posted in November of 2006, I’ve found myself searching for it multiple times in order to just reread it, or to pass the link to somebody else. Yes, it usually comes up again due to a bus crash. The Rise and Fall of the “Bus Plunge” Story I like the overview of a piece of journalism... read more
