Conversations on disability, travel, family & art. Grab some coffee. stay for a while
I posted this picture on facebook, along with the caption, Moxie: KEEP YOUR DISTANCE from this here bowl of MAC AND CHEESE! – I realize that at 38 wks, I'm letting the kids pretty much live off of Mac and cheese. And Popsicles Whereupon my friend said, "38 weeks = survival mode. They will [...]
We wrapped up our first week of homeschooling last Friday and I think it went well. I found a book I like to loosely base themes from – It's called Where is Thumbkin?: 500 Activities to Use with Songs You Already Know and it's pretty much that: activities that integrate with songs we already know. [...]
That awkward moment of trying to put your shoes on, put your kid's shoes on, and your next door neighbor's client is waiting for you to finish so he can go in to her place and get…serviced. And you know why he's waiting and he knows you know why he's waiting. Small tight sort [...]
"Who shoots a Sikh?" Karan mused on her facebook status. "Is their fanning of their holy books just too loud? Is their long hair just too luxurious? Their kirpan too shiny? Their temple too gold?" Karan is a 30-something year old Oakland hipster-gardener-traveler and I think she nailed it. I mean, who shoots a Sikh? [...]
Amy Julia Becker wrote a lovely post not that long about the need to re-arrange her life. She wrote of an experience she had in camp as a young person – the camp counselor had taken a jar with a lot of rocks and asked the kids to fit it all in. Pouring the small [...]
Zappos has me used to free next day shipping and free returns… with thrilling customer service thrown in. So when I ventured out of my Zappos-cocoon and shopped online with JC Penney, I wasn't aware of the rude disappointment that was going to face me: – I had to wait 10 days for the package [...]
I love biking and BARTing to work. Aside from the rush to catch the train (which only comes every 15 minutes so if you miss it, it can be a LONG wait when you are running late…), it's gorgeously stress-free. I get to chillax, draw pictures all the way to work. Just BE. I love [...]
