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Diaper-Free Time
Nope, life isn’t much more than “pshsh” and “bthth” right now. After a frustrating evening of doing...
harp, 4 August 2010 |
Ich Spreche Deutsch!
Joseph got his Swiss ID card in the mail today and I got a letter from the NSH testing center. I passed the German C1...
Steph Shaw Is Making an Album
I've mentioned Steph Shaw before, when I wrote about Kevin Michael Johnson's Kickstarter campaign (successfully completed; The...
Getting Things Done
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen (Penguin, New York, 2001) For now, I can't do any...
July 4 & August 1!
Catching up a bit, since I missed July 4: Happy Independence Day to my country, and Happy Schweizer...
Gag Me with a Cookie
I was a Brownie, then a Girl Scout as a child. Even then I was somewhat disenchanted, as I knew—thanks to my father's...
Potty Update
The title should warn those not interested in the subject . . . Yesterday we had great potty success. My excitement mounted...
You Know You're Back in Florida When...
...when you take a nice hot shower and only find out later that your husband had turned off the water heater three days before.
One Month Old!
Yesterday was Joseph’s first month birthday already! We celebrated by saying goodbye to grandma and spending the day all by...
Common Sense 101: Lessons from G. K. Chesterton
Common Sense 101: Lessons from G. K. Chesterton by Dale Ahlquist (Ignatius Press, San Francisco, 2006) I tried to take a...
Swiss Baby Adventure: Adjustments, Part 5 - Money and...
One of the fun things about spending foreign money is that it doesn't feel like real spending. It feels like play money,...
Covenant and Communion
Covenant and Communion: The Biblical Theology of Pope Benedict XVI by Scott W. Hahn (Brazos Press, Grand Rapids, Michigan,...
Getting Things Done
Quite a few months ago I made yet another attempt at getting my life organized and while looking online for the best filing system I...
Swiss Baby Adventure: Li'l Writer Guy in Bern
While Joseph was undergoing a secular baptism of sorts at the American Embassy in Bern, Grandma had no official business other than to...
Swiss Baby Adventure: Adjustments, Part 4 - Food
Living with other people for several weeks is a good way to experience new foods and new food combinations. If those other people...
Toilet Talk
I borrowed a book from my sister on EC (Elimination Communication) and read it a month or so before Joseph was born. It sounded...
Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead
Ender's Game , by Orson Scott Card (Tor, New York, 1991) Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card (Tor, New York, 1991)...
Swiss Baby Adventure: Joseph's Birth Story
We interrupt the writing of my review of Ender's Game to alert you to the fact that Janet has now posted Joseph's birth story . ...
Joseph Andreas Stücklin’s Birth Story
Warning: This is a long post. Here’s the short version: It was long. It hurt. Joseph was born. ...
Unmagical Magic
As I've said before , Isaac Asimov has long been one of my favorite authors, from science fiction (of course) to science fact to...
Swiss Baby Adventure: Spit in Your Face
The title isn't quite true, but it gets past the censors. Joseph is the non-spitting-est baby I've ever met. I never...
Swiss Baby Adventure: Adjustments, Part 3 - Trash &...
I like the trash collection system here in Basel: You buy special blue garbage bags, each 35 liters in size (about 9 gallons),...
Stained Glass Elegies
Stained Glass Elegies: Stories by Shusaku Endo translated by Van C. Gessel (Tuttle Publishing, Tokyo, 1986) When Basel...
Swiss Baby Adventure: It's HOT!
Temperatures in the mid-90's do not surprise me in July: I live in Florida. I'll confess I was hoping for something more...
In Tune with the World
In Tune with the World: A Theory of Festivity by Josef Pieper, translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston (St....