Children

  • Today: Brighten up.

    When I was a sprightly, more youthful twenty-something (I am officially over the hill when it comes to the twenties), I worked in a little state by the name of Rhode Island.  It’s not actually an island, and I wouldn’t exactly qualify the state’s leadership as Rhodes Scholars. In fact, there are a lot of things about Massachusetts’ neighbor to the south that continue to baffle me.  But that’s a…

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  • Today: Read on Memory Lane

    We are compiling a list at work, featuring our “must read” books for kids, inspired by our own literary childhoods.  With Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (one of my all-time favorites) and Where the Wild Things Are hitting the theatres, now’s a great time…

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  • Today: Protest indoor scooting

    Sometimes people have babies.  It’s always nice to buy them things.  Bad Elizabeth and I went shopping for our friend’s soon to be born baby last night.  Am I insane, or is Magic Beans the most terrifying store on the planet? There was stuff everywhere:…

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