Riverbend, a nameless woman in Iraq, writes:
The thing most worrisome about the situation now, is that discrimination based on sect has become so commonplace. For the average educated Iraqi in Baghdad, there is still scorn for all the Sunni/Shia talk. Sadly though, people are being pushed into claiming to be this or that because political [...]
Today Ben went to the doctor and had a hearing test, and his hearing was…perfectly fine. He has been taking mega-doses of antiobiotics to fight his chronic ear infection and we didn’t know if his hearing loss would be permanent or not. Today, however, he passed the hearing test and even miraculously passed [...]
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Ben has decided that we are all “sauruses”, or dinosaurs. I am the mama-saurus, daddy is the daddy-saurus, Maya is the baby-maya-saurus, Ben is the son-saurus, and a little neon-colored t-rex he got from somewhere is the baby-saurus.
This is serious stuff. The baby-saurus was crying a few nights ago and we all [...]
Here is Ben with his very, very, very cool sunglasses doing his “I am kung fu spy” routine. You need Quicktime to view this, and I highly recommend Quicktime alternative, a free download, if you do.
idiot? Oh, yeah, the president of the American Library Association. Brilliant. He seems surprised that writing an article about technology before he even knew of blogs would put him under fire. Personally, I’m shocked.
