Do you give Christmas presents to your child? No seriously, if you celebrate Christmas, do you exchange gifts? I’ve heard of families who just don’t want all the – excuse me but it’s true – junk around the house, and hence say “no gifts please.” I wish I could do this, but I can’t even [...]
We’re heading to the East Coast for Christmas, now the land of snow*. As we pack all our luggage into a single suitcase, we’re playing the three-song-holiday-rotation that is the Holiday Light**. For several years of this, precisely seven, I’ve listened to the Rat Pack rendition of Marshmallow World. You know, some combination of Dean [...]
We don’t watch a lot of TV. When we do watch, it’s after the kids go to bed, so they watch even less…. with us anyway*. Sometimes Edie wants to Watch A Show, a request in which my response is a direct correlation with whether or not she will be or was in childcare that [...]
I read National Geographic’s picture of the day. You know, the ones who first published the famous chipmonk vacation picture. See spoofs here, here (sorry Tiger), and generally here. Today’s shot? The frog who ate Christmas! According to the photographer, it’s still on the string in this shot, the frog is fine, the light removed.
According to the ghosty guy on the Polar Express, Edie’s new favorite favorite movie*, “seeing is believing.” I say this really only to say that I’m a visual person. I like maps. I picture images in my head when doing simple math. So imagine my delight when I discovered the Visual Thesaurus this morning. It’s [...]
