Monthly Archives: December 2010

Maya loves to sell things, organize things, think of ways to make money…  She is a lot like Joshua in that way (in many ways, but it would take too long to detail them all here).   Last week, she decided … Continue reading →

Listened to John’s music all day, both Beatles and his solo stuff.  30 years ago today tragedy was about to strike.  It was a Monday, and many people heard that John Lennon had been shot from Howard Cosell, who was … Continue reading →

London.  Hands down. No doubt about it. I can say this because we visited the Liberty Science Center today, which is located sort of east-ish of Jersey City.  We went with our friends Rob, Marcella and Genevieve and spent the … Continue reading →

Maya is away tonight, on her second overnight in three days.  Needless to say all is right in her world.   For Ben this has meant hours of uninterrupted time in his world, which over the past few days has been … Continue reading →

HUGE 3 page article in the Times today about the dangers of cyberbullying among teens.   Clueless parents who don’t know how to text are baffled at their children either bullying or being bullied by other kids (usually kids they know … Continue reading →

This was the scene tonight at Starbucks, as Ben and I waited in line.    A woman in front of us was talking to her daughter, who looked to be about Ben’s age: Daughter:   Can’t I have two brownies?  They’re kind … Continue reading →

I was reading out of Holt’s Teach Your Own today, and decided that I would let his words make up the body of today’s post.   Some of these quotes may be familiar to you, others are slightly more obscure.  In … Continue reading →

Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all thirty feet tall. –Larry Wilde Growing up on a farm in Indiana, we always had an artificial tree at Christmas.  Which seems a … Continue reading →