Who do you want to be today? Who do you want to be? Who do you want to be today? Do you want to be just like someone on T.V.? OK, so Danny was talking about media, and about the creation of self based on glitzy outside (unreal) models. But today’s the 31st, and this [...]
Archive for December, 2006
December 20 2006
Pitter-Pat
…is what I call Rowan every morning when he gets up. Mornings are not, traditionally, a good time for the members of my family. We have a long and glorious tradition of waking poorly and hostile. My own mother bought me an alarm clock when I was in junior high, so she wouldn’t have to [...]
December 14 2006
New Post at LWOS
Wheee! A seasonal post, even! Hope you guys like it. http://lifewithoutschool.typepad.com/lifewithoutschool/2006/12/paper_chain.html
December 13 2006
Expanding to Reach the Edges of Myself
I made the leap. I bought the extra-huge Monarch Franklin Covey Planner. In the past, I’d always stuck to the compact size, reasoning that it would fit easily in the backpack, and therefore I’d carry it and use it more. Two years of not doing that, has led me to realize that smaller is not [...]
December 10 2006
Four-Hour Watch
On one of my Mommy Lists, someone is complaining about not getting enough sleep. And it’s hitting my buttons. Americans who spend their entire youths living on no sleep and chocolate-covered espresso beans at their own choice, suddenly become hostile and whiney when they’re getting more sleep on average, but broken up on their baby’s [...]
December 6 2006
The Escalation of Lights
‘Tis clearly The Season. My neighborhood, eight square blocks at the foot of a venerable old Catholic Church, is intensely competitive in the Domestic Decoration Front. For Halloween, people start planning months in advance, and end up doing dioramas of graveyards that span three houses’ worth of lawns. Last year, six houses pooled their funds [...]
