::turning little monkeys into men::
Posted in Interesting on Jan 27th, 2008
Barack poses with his mother, Ann, half sister, Maya, and maternal grandfather Stanley Dunham in Hawaii in the early 1970s after the family returned from Indonesia. Neighbors remember the close relationship between young Barack and his grandfather.
(Photo courtesy of Maya Soetoro-Ng - Chicago Tribune March 23, 2007)
From an op-ed in the Chicago Tribune by George […]
Posted in about, oh, the cleverness of me on Jan 24th, 2008
Stephany from Crooked House has very kindly invited me to participate in this 6 things/habits/quirks meme! Since the children and I are sick as dogs, I figured it would be a good time to do it, something amusing and fun, relief for my ’splodey head.
6 random things about me:
1. I have nicknaming Tourette’s.
2. I sing. […]
Posted in good picture, kidlets, love on Jan 24th, 2008
Images depicting love, symbolic or literal - via Shutter Sisters.
Posted in dog, kidlets, nursing, parenting on Jan 23rd, 2008
For a long time, we’ve had a “family” bed. When nursing Tess, it made midnight feedings delightfully easy. What’s better than just rolling over to feed the baby? The Boy was born and it was still ok. Tandem nursing is not easy and my husband travels so much that it was almost always just me […]
I’ve been hard up for Ashley G. for awhile now but I think my discovery (lucky link following) of Amy Sol blows that obsession right out of the water. (edit: add Audrey Kawasaki to the list of artists I’m jonesing for)
I love her subjects (the girls she draws are are like my imagined version of […]
Posted in Interesting, kidlets, wtf? on Jan 15th, 2008
I hate the word “hapa”.
Wiki says that in Hawaiian “hapa is strictly defined as: a portion, fragment, part, fraction, installment; to be partial, less”.
Also - “hapa is often taken to mean “part white”, and is short hand for “hapa haole” and “while the terms haole and popolo are no more inherently derogatory than white or […]
Posted in Interesting, midcentmodlust on Jan 14th, 2008
I’ve been trying to get in on this Craig’s List/ thrift/ modern furniture thing for a while. I mean, I’m home all day, on the internet fairly often and love browsing through the offerings for those hidden, inexpensive gems. I thought I had quite a coup a few months ago when I found a lovely […]
Posted in kidlets, mitten, ten years ago on Jan 6th, 2008
Happy 10th Birthday, K. Simply put, my dear, I wouldn’t be the person I am today if you hadn’t come into my life.
You were born and my heart, so startlingly full of love for you, split like a soaked seed, sending out tough little tendrils that bound me to you, an awesome reversal of […]
Who’s got a line on boobie methadone? Is there a powder I could covertly tip into Toot’s Dora yogurt drinks? A liquid to dip her Flintstones Gummies in? If I followed the old “Don’t offer, don’t refuse” method of weaning, I swear - she might nurse more than her brother.
She loves Milkie. Milkie is her […]
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