Archives for the 'Personal' Category
FOUND! That childhood book I couldn’t remember…
For any of you interested in my quest to find a childhood book that I couldn’t identify, my sanity has been saved by the father/son team of Jerry and David Daniel.
Jerry spied my plea for help on Facebook and made it his personal mission to help me find it, and then David identified it immediately [...]
The lack of persistence of childhood memories
As a parent, watching my kids grow bumps into memories of my own childhood, sometimes with stark clarity and sometimes like when you forget about that top step when walking up a staircase in a dream.
Now that my eight year old girl has become a big reader, I find myself remembering the books that I [...]
On the Pleasures of Re-Reading vs. Blogging
On a recent road-trip with my eight-year-old daughter, H, we visited with a favorite former student of mine, Y, who is now a high-test corporate attorney. We met at the Emeryville Barnes & Noble and as we wandered, picking up fresh books for H, Y mentioned that she never re-reads novels, always preferring something new.
My [...]
15 Books
[Cross-posted from Facebook because ultimately I realized that there was nothing TOO personal here... with the possible exception of #5...]
I saw my old friend Debbie Ginsberg get tagged with this and read her list with fascination. Coincidentally, I’d been thinking along these lines just last night when I found myself picking up book #1 on [...]
Terrific paragraph on playdates from Dooce…
Not fall on the floor funny, but funny…
“It’s been a few months since Leta’s had a play date, and we sort of forgot how that one extra little body can increase the blast radius of destruction by about a thousand percent. Afterwards there were toys sitting in the middle of the room that we forgot [...]
