I looked out the window after school today, and saw rain pouring down on students and teachers as they loaded the buses. It didn’t look good for me, and I’d parked my bike outside and left all of my rain gear (cheap poncho and plastic bags) in the Freeloader bags, where it was already getting [...]
At 5:00 this morning, the alarm clock came to life and blared out that there’d been another earthquake in Haiti, magnitude 6.1.
“Oh, no”
“What?!”
My husband and I responded simultaneously. He turned the alarm off and went back to sleep, since he was going to work two hours late today. I rolled over and didn’t go back [...]
Posted on January 16th, 2010 in Parenting
The girls went upstairs to bed, and within a few minutes I could hear shrieks of dismay. “Give me my book!” “I don’t want to listen to the Wiggles!” “I can’t find any pajamas!”
I think we need to do something about bedtime again. I know that having a routine is key, especially for young children. [...]
Posted on January 09th, 2010 in Parenting
Sort of. Wednesday was a birthday; my eldest daughter’s 10th. Today is the party. We’ve done all kinds of birthday parties over the past 10 years.
When she turned one, we were living in California, and invited all nearby family members for a birthday party. We honestly didn’t think they’d all show up! We were glad [...]
The current capitalist approach to business says that growth is good. Corporations and other businesses are supposed to grow every year, sell more products, provide more services, and earn more money.
I say that’s not sustainable. How could it be? How can we possibly expect infinite growth?
But aside from growth being unsustainable in the long run, [...]
Posted on November 13th, 2009 in Parenting, Sustainability
We’re almost done with toilet training. Hopefully I didn’t jinx it by saying that! Our youngest, at four, is pretty much accident free in the daytime; she’s still wearing cotton training pants, but that’s it. And she’s wearing disposable training pants at night because I have yet to find cloth training pants that work for [...]
I’ve been seeing tweets from Portland’s Office of Emergency Management (OEM) all morning. They’re tweeting about swine flu (H1N1 virus), because they’re attending the Oregon Flu Summit today.
I’ve been decidedly on the “let’s not panic” side of the swine flu issue. It hasn’t cause massive deaths in the U.S. so far (although I’m not sure [...]
The media are still talking about Michael Jackson’s death, and it’s not just on Inside Edition. Today, even our local newscasts were letting us know that the autopsy report has been delayed. It gets old. But then, it’s all Michael all the time at our house anyway.
I was 10 years old on December 8, 1980, [...]
