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Daylight Saving Time
Daylight Saving Time. DST. In Europe, it's called by the more logical name of "Summer Time," but we in the United States...
sursumcorda, 11 March 2015 |
Southwest Snatches Victory from Defeat
I don't know what caused our homeward flight to be delayed five hours. It certainly wasn't the weather, which could hardly have...
Kids and Practicing
How do you get kids to practice their instruments? That's the question of all parents who can't help having occasional misgivings...
Joseph Reflection: 56 Months (4 years and 8 months)
How Joseph is growing up! But he still does cute things. While reading “Silent Night!” from the hymnal he said...
Size Matters
It's extraordinary how often otherwise civilized people think it's not only their right but their duty to criticize the size of other...
Dependence Is for Babies
Glenn Doman used to say that what babies and small children want most of all is to grow up, right now. (I've wasted too much time...
Vivienne Reflection: 3 Years and 1 Month
Vivienne loves pink, and Hello Kitty, and dresses, and Angelina Ballerina. She loves all the cute stuff she got for her birthday,...
Isn't Returning Just Recycling, Only More Annoying?
I can see by yesterday's Frazz comic that Frazz lives in Connecticut or some other state that charges a few pennies extra for certain...
Daniel Reflection: 18 Months
Daniel has a special love for his daddy, pointing to the door when he wants him home from work, running to him as soon as he arrives,...
A Visit to King Arthur Flour
95 by 65 #38 (5 new restaurants, #2) and #48 (visit King Arthur Flour): Two flies with one swat. (This European...
A Brief Comment on Taxes, from "Life of Fred"
I'm still enjoying the Life of Fred math series , as you can see from my booklist ; I hope to finish all that the Daleys have before...
Nathaniel Peter Daley
(click image to enlarge) Nathaniel Peter Daley Born Monday, February 16, 2015, 5:10 a.m. Weight: 8 pounds, 14 ounces...
Brilliant, Passionate, and Clueless
Far be it from me to minimize the intelligence and contributions of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. My own feelings about him are mixed,...
Short Attention Span?
I know my readers know that kids don’t have short attention spans, but I still think about that common misconception. Our...
For One Nephew on the Birthday of Another
Mother Goose & Grimm isn't one of my favorite comics, but every once in a while they do something I really like. Maybe this...
Progress on Three Goals Today (Soon to Be Four)
#37 Share at least 20 meals with others: We met my brother for dinner at ... #38 Try at least 5 new restaurants: ... the...
Joseph Reflection: 55 months (4 years, 7 months)
Joseph likes figuring out how old people are in terms of months, or rather, asking us to figure it out. “When you...
Tell It to the Babies
And they wonder why some people take doctors' recommendations with a grain of salt. The same medical establishment that pushes the...
95 by 65: #86 Rocket Boost Genealogy
I thought it would be easy. I have no small children at home. I have no paid employment. Life at the moment is,...
95 by 65: #29 Research and Purchase Food Processor
Another goal, albeit one of the easier ones, accomplished: I reaearched and bought a food processor. Actually, I have one...
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story . This movie needs no more review than this: See it. But of course I can't...
Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds
This is me, eating crow. I've always had problems with the AARP. I don't like their politics, and I resent the frequent...
Just How Stupid Do They Think Americans Are? (Don't...
What, pray tell, is the point of being able to get a foreign product in the U.S. if it has the same or similar name but has an entirely...
Vivienne Turns Three!
We celebrated several times, all rather informally. We visited a arts and crafts “Spielgruppe” to see if it might be...
95 by 65
As promised in my Leon Project post , here is my list of 95 things to accomplish by my 65th birthday, which is approximately two and a...