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Some odds and ends… Blog design Not using Typekit any more. May come back to it. Could not get past the issues I described earlier. On a related note, have you checked out the new theme, monochrome? It...
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The other day Bookworm Girl commented that the “most advanced” student in her group class is this one girl who is actually two books behind all the others. But this girl plays beautifully, with great...
View ArticleArtist Boy, evolving
My son Artist Boy, now 14 years old, was… I don’t want to say difficult, exactly… but he was a complicated toddler. For one thing, he didn’t play with toys. (Being a new mom, I blamed the toys: Don’t...
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So last week was our mid-winter break and we spent it, woo-hoo, in a fancy resort on the Yucatán peninsula. We lolled about on lounge chairs, sipping cocktails and soaking up the sun while the...
View ArticleNew theme: 2010
Well my goodness, it has been a while since I checked in here. I do like this blog, and writing about my life still seems like a good idea The only problem is, life gets in the way of writing …...
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Well, I did manage to do some reading in the last couple months. Highlights: The Invention of Air by Steven Johnson. Nonfiction, and I read it practically in a single sitting! Biology, chemistry,...
View ArticleHas it been this long?
Wow, has it really been half a year since I last checked in here? How time does fly. Funny how the urge to blog comes in cycles… Well the first thing I had to do was make a couple of … Continue reading →
View ArticleCombo
I discovered these two items stacked on top of each other, as shown, in the bathroom the other day. Tee hee! Architectural Digest Architectural Digest comes to our house every month. We never ordered...
View ArticleA good morning!
I don’t know a better way to start the day — any day, but especially a holiday — than with the Bach Motets. Before I go any further with this post I should give you a couple of caveats. I … Continue...
View ArticleGeekmom strikes again
Artist Boy has been trying to get his friends interested in Dungeons & Dragons for quite a while — years, actually — but he has never really succeeded. That is, they are happy to play, but the...
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