Saturday, October 31, 2009

Soaking in the Fall

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I've never seen a wettest fall... and a warmer one it's hard to come by as well. I'm not complaining -- I can take the rain, the...
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Thursday, October 29, 2009

Someday I'll Want a Kindle/ Questions for Users + Possible Academic/Teaching Use

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I just found out that I really want a Kindle, or "will want" as I say in the title. I'll have to wait quite a while, though......
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The Cat, The Car, The... Can this please stop?

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So our cat had been vomiting for three days and after worrying about him quite a bit, yesterday evening I just went and took him to the vet....
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Sunday, October 25, 2009

Flying Away Home

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My parents are flying back to Brazil right now. It's a beautiful day to fly and hopefully they'll enjoy it, in spite of the fact tha...
Wednesday, October 21, 2009

My Uncle + This Country's Health Care System = Despair & Outrage

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This is a photo of my uncle, back in 2006, taken by Kelvin (who was four years old at the time). His brain tumor was probably already formin...
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Monday, October 19, 2009

Trains, Boys & Blogger Meet Up (Belated Post)

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It's been almost a month now, but my motto regarding photo sharing is "better late than never!" so here you go. My apologies t...
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Friday, October 16, 2009

Vote for Dawn!

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One of my all time favorite bloggers Dawn, of this woman's work was nominated and became a finalist of the Best Adoption Blog category ...
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Bilingual Dreamer

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I don't want to forget this, so I have to blog it, "Baby Book" style, like Dawn... On Wednesday morning when we were waking up...
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Thursday, October 15, 2009

Where the Wild Things Are (& other books) in the old Please Touch Museum

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What saddened me the most about the closing of the old Please Touch Museum in Philadelphia is that it had a whole section (approximately 1/...
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58, 57, 56... Shiver!

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Conversion to Celsius degrees: 14, 13.8, 13 C Those are the temperatures in the three levels of our house right now -- warmer in the ground ...
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Flu-ish Boy

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Kelvin woke up quite sick today. He didn't even get up properly, he climbed down from his top bunk, came downstairs for half a minute an...
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Really, Trader Joe's, Really!?!

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Taking my cue from Seth & Amy and their Really!?! SNL segment, I want to express my incredulity regarding a product sold by one of my a...
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009

The Pianist

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So far so good... or, should I say excellent? I'm thrilled to report that Kelvin is thoroughly enjoying learning the piano, probably muc...
Monday, October 12, 2009

The Day that Wasn't

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So, yesterday just wasn't the day I wanted it to be because when I wrote my post I didn't know that my friends had to return their ...
Sunday, October 11, 2009

Sleep Deprived in Massachusetts

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That's how we were on Friday (when we left PA at 3 am to drive to MA), and yesterday (when, again, we went to bed at nearly 3 am on Frid...
Monday, October 05, 2009

The Allergist

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(this is one of the "tying loose ends" posts I mentioned previously ) First, I have to preamble this (hopefully) brief post by say...
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Friday, October 02, 2009

Rio 2016 Olympics!!! Viva o Brasil!!!

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I'd heard something on NPR last night about the disappointment of Chicago's candidacy as host city of the 2016 Summer Olympic games ...
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"A Girl Like Me" - Kiri Davis' Heartbreaking Documentary -- tying a loose end from way back :-)

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Almost two years ago (Nov. 07) I posted about and also voted frantically in the Cosmo Girl film contest for Kiri Davis' short documenta...
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Thursday, October 01, 2009

First Steps in Writing

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Since we're scanning most of the boys' work (to upload to the school website), it will be easy to share some of it here once in a wh...

Masterpiece

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My five-year-old just finished this art class assignment and he said, "My masterpiece is finished." I suppose I can see this as a ...
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