Quote of the week:
From Dooce:
The Grandmommy: Not much different than The Godfather, except maybe a little less bloodshed and a ton more emotional manipulation.
Redneck Swimming Pool
I have often wondered if I would have liked Tucson better if we had bought a house with a pool at the start. I was always worried about Ben, and later, Maya, drowning in a pool so I adamantly refused to even look at properties that had pools when we first moved here. [...]
Put down your weapons
Tonight, while reading Judith Warner’s column online in the New York Times, I stumbled onto an article she had written a few weeks ago called “Families to Care About.” The gist of the article was that the economic downturn has mostly affected the poor and middle classes, but that coverage was primarily of upper-class [...]
Pictures!!!
I’ve been totally wrapped up in doing my homework for grad school (yes, I really do homework occasionally!) and in working on my new ePortfolio but I realized I have no recent kid pictures (I’m a kid too). So, without further ado…