Before I got pregnant, I thought that the most inconvenient thing about it would be the whole no drinking thing.  However.  It turns out that I likey fake sweet stuff way more than I likey booze, caffeine, cleaning the litter box, and eating something other than carbs.  It was SO H...

We hear angry barking: let the dumb and rapacious fools who got in over their heads financially sink all the way down, out of sight and into nothingness. We also hear, on the other hand, that virtuous people will keep in mind and reach out a hand to hard-luck losers, whether they brought financial t...

1. I don't know if you've heard, but according the promos, tonight's episode of The Bachelor is going to feature The Most Dramatic Rose Ceremony Ever.  Chris Harrison never, like, exaggerates or anything, so I'm pretty psyched. 2. I have a hair appointment on Saturday!  T...

The other day I mentioned to a co-worker that Rob and I were thinking about fostering a rescue Shih Tzu.*  The response was one of disbelief and laughter.  And a "no comment." I was really sort of ... taken aback.  Now, I do realize that we already have a 2:1 animal to hu...

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About a year ago, I read Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking , a memoir about the sudden death of Didion's husband, John, and her daughter Quintana's serious illness.  I don't remember much about the book except for the concept of "magical thinking."  In ...

Network Rules for Radicals.... I have been cooking ideas of how to mashup the Rules for Radicals and network-centric advocacy for a few years. The puzzle lies in front of us "the rules" are scattered on one side of the desk and papers the "network attributes and components" are on the laptop sitting...

Twitter and cell phone text messaging (<= 140 characters) have us expressing ourselves in sound bytes, sharpening our writing chops and communicating more whilst using many less words. It’s nothing short of cultural revolution, as our increasingly plugged-in populace evolves to more succinc...

This week has been lots of fun and lots of great food! Thank you to Mrs. Thorner for the grande cup of Starbucks and to Mrs. Schad for the HUGE lunch from California Pizza Kitchen. My husband had the leftovers for dinner!  I can only guess what is up next! We teachers love our profession and f...

They lost control of the message. That's now become the universal diagnosis of Team Obama's mistake during the stimulus bill debate. From the commentariat to the White House chief of staff, the lesson to be learned from the last two weeks, we are told, is that the administration let the Republicans ...