We All Live in a Capital I
If you pay attention, you can see the exact moment when Sam starts phoning in his performance.
View ArticleBest Resignation Letter Ever
Stewart Butterfield, cofounder of Flickr, has resigned from the company, signifying a parting of ways with Flickr's new owner, Yahoo. And his McSweeney's-esque exit letter is one of the best things...
View ArticleNow, Where Was I?
As you may have guessed (if, in fact, there still is a "you" out there after my long silence), I've been taking a little break from this site. Being a mom to two kids -- no matter how awesome said kids...
View ArticleNo, Really... He Likes Books
Hola! Things are still nutty around here. The leaves are turning red (well, brown, but work with me). Toddlers are turning into preschoolers. Infants are turning into babies. Specifically, infants are...
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Happy Whatevermas!
Is it possible to delurk from your own site? If so, hi! This is me, delurking to wish you and yours a belated happy whatevermas. I come bearing pictures! Specifically, pictures of what's turned me into...
View ArticleThe Books in 2008
Er, nothing to report here, I'm afraid. Books were read, but having a second kid knocked the wind out of my blogging sails. Given the choice between reading books and writing books, I went with...
View ArticlePreschooler Refrain, or: Why Bedtime Takes So Long at Our House
"I think I'll go out to Alberta. Weather's good there in the fall. Got some friends that I could go to working for." What friends? What kind of work?"Still I wish you'd change your mind, if I asked you...
View ArticleJust So's You Know What I'm Up to These Days
I'm still blogging, just doing it over here. And editing the rest of the site, too.
View ArticleWell, Here I Am
And where are you? Still out there? Still visiting blogs? Or has everyone moved on to Facebook now? (I won't say Twitter because where I'm from, them's fightin' words.) So it's been a while. I've been...
View ArticleBy Way of Catching Up
If you've been wondering (and it's okay of you haven't been; my ego can take it), here's what I was up to in '09:Created with Admarket'sflickrSLiDR.And now we're caught up with me! What the heck is new...
View ArticleIn Which I Attempt to Catch Up on Two Years of Reading. (Can It Be Done?)
So I looked over at my sidebar to figure out where I left off my annual book count, and realized I haven't updated the bloody thing since December 2007. 2007! I've lost two years! I thought I'd only...
View ArticleWhy I Am Smarter Than the Average Doctor, Thanks to Children's Literature
Question:What do the following children's books have in common?All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney TaylorThe Little House novels by Laura Ingalls WilderThe Moffats by Eleanor EstesLittle Women by Louisa May...
View ArticleCorn Dodger? But I Hardly Even Know Her.
Hey ho, if you love the Little House series and you love food, then you should check out The Little House Cookbook: Frontier Foods from Laura Ingalls Wilder's Classic Stories. What's that? You've never...
View Article50 Books Reprise
Well, that was one of the worst new year's resolutions ever. I can't believe there was a time when I used to update this site every day. Holy crap.So I was looking at the growing stack of completed...
View ArticlePerfect Evidence of My Imperfect Memory
Well, I was planning to write about the books I've read so that I can finally update that sad little "Books in 2010" list in the sidebar, but wouldn't you know it? I didn't plan well and forgot to...
View ArticleJanuary's top 10 most expensive sales on AbeBooks
Signed copies of the Harry Potter books outsold first editions by Faulkner, Trollope, and Teddy Roosevelt.Right now, Faulkner is rolling over in his grave, cursing his decision to go the idiot manchild...
View ArticleA resolution. Yeah, yeah, yeah... I know.
Hey there, friends. What's up?Oh, me? What's been going on over here since I pretty much dropped off the face of this site a couple of years back? The usual. Turned forty. Beloved old cat passed away....
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10 of the most beautiful school libraries
It's like the universe knows I'm blogging again and is tossing presents in my lap. Thanks, universe!I just came across this photo essay, which makes me retroactively pissy about the ugliness of the...
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Oops... we did it again.
As I mentioned last week, my dog Dobbs died just over a year ago. (You may remember him from this post, which I'm so glad now that I wrote, even though -- or perhaps because -- it makes me cry every...
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