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Swiss Baby Adventure: Welcome, Joseph Andreas Stücklin!
Janet and Stephan are the proud parents of Joseph Andreas Stücklin , born at home in Basel, Switzerland on June 28, 2010, at...
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Firefox Pages All Blank
On Sunday, Firefox suddenly stopped working on my computer. It would open all right, but no matter what URL I used it would only...
Lame, Mr. Asimov, Really Lame
The day I arrived in Basel on this trip, I felt in need of some "chill-out" reading that wouldn't tax my jet-lagged brain cells. ...
Swiss Baby Adventure: Adjustments, Part 2 - Diapers
To repeat, from Part 1 , lest I forget: The first principle is that nobody should be ashamed of thinking a thing...
Swiss Baby Adventure: Adjustments, Part 1 - Laundry
The first principle is that nobody should be ashamed of thinking a thing funny because it is foreign; the second is...
Swiss Baby Adventure: Victories
The trouble with having a handicap not shared by most people is that no one appreciates it when you have a major victory. If...
Swiss Baby Adventure, Days 3 - 6: Settling In
Stephan returned from a business trip, and graciously spent what few minutes he had free to install a new system that not only...
Swiss Baby Adventure, Days 0 - 2: Getting There
I know, I know, I have many more adventures to write up, but I'm starting with this one, as I think it will be more interesting to most...
Irresistibly Cute Family Picture
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Five and Counting
Since my first bold move in the middle of high school, I’ve grown my hair long and donated the ponytail four times to Locks of...
Xylitol - An Unintentional Experiment
I wrote about xylitol when I discovered it in Japan four years ago, and that remains one of my most popular posts. Although I...
Flag Day 2010
Some of my favorite flags:
The Baby Pool Is Open!
Visit Stephan's blog to enter your guesses about Little One Stücklin's arrival details. Here's a teaser to help you...
The Real Food Revolution
The Rest of the Story . The true revolution behind Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution television show was based in Connecticut...
For Our Nerdy Family
For reasons obscure (who needs a reason, anyway?) I was looking up mathematician/musician Tom Lehrer and came upon this. Enjoy!...
A Laugh from the Past
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In and The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour Thanks to Netflix, we're reprising the...
New Year's Resolution #6 - Cast Away Fear
I'm not sure exactly where I'm going with this resolution, and I really have no business adding another when I haven't made much...
The Great American Hot Dog
What could be more American than hot dogs? Lawsuits, apparently. I bought a package of hot dogs yesterday. I'm...
Hey, That's Our Steph!
Check out our * Steph Shaw on a very early morning TV gig in New York today. The guy out front who keeps hogging the...
Feudal Effort
Meet Feudal Effort , the latest addition to the comics list on my Sursum Corda page: I find it fun. Sometimes...
Generation Gap
Mutton dressed as lamb . I can and do text , finding it quite useful at times, mostly because not all phones send and receive...
Memorial Day Cake
Our Memorial Day celebration concluded with a lovely dinner at at a friend's house, to which we brought wine and...
Memorial Day, 2010
One of the reasons I like Mallard Fillmore is that he can always be counted on to remember: This Memorial Day I...
Food Rules
Food Rules: An Eater's Manual by Michale Pollan (Penguin, New York, 2009) Food Rules is a condensation of what...
Six Weeks and Counting
Only about six more weeks until we're visibly a family of three! Stephan took and posted a picture of me on Monday after we...