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Posted on entry Brooklyn, this morning, 9:30 AM ::: February 13, 2006, 01:04 PM:
Ah, looks like time to cue up Loreena McKennitt's setting of Lampman's Snow.

Stay warm and watch for the play of light on the snow when the sun comes out. Those big fluffy flakes turn into millions of prisms.
Posted on entry A prescient note from Robert Frost ::: June 27, 2005, 02:24 PM:
CJR Daily's take on the original coverage is here:
Giant Popsicle As Rorschach Blot, or "how to understand the fundamental difference between the New York Times and the New York Post."

Posted on entry Open thread 38 ::: March 24, 2005, 05:23 PM:
Rod, "aggressively unperturbed"?

Steve, your baby is beautiful. And lord, do I remember feeling that transcendent exhaustion you can see on his mother's face.
Posted on entry Open Thread 37 ::: March 04, 2005, 05:13 PM:
"[T]o save the human race from extinction, and preserve the foundations of civilisation" (a laudable goal), the Social Issues Research Centre presents the Guide to Flirting: everything that empirical research can tell you about flirting and how to do it.

Posted on entry The mother drive-by ::: March 02, 2005, 01:23 PM:
Lenora Rose: Put down that Sun right now! Are you trying to give yourself a coronary? ::shakes head sadly:: And stay away from Lindor Reynolds' columns too. It's a toss-up as to which of those two so-called writers has more empty space between her ears.

Jax: Congratulations and good luck. You can do it. FYI: Our midwife prescribed a double shot of vodka (for me) early in labour for relaxation purposes. Worked like a charm.
Posted on entry The mother drive-by ::: February 28, 2005, 01:20 PM:
I don't get a lot of mothering drive-bys. I suppose I could be projecting some type of don't-say-it forcefield, but it seems highly unlikely, since I'm always the person chosen to hear someone else's "tinfoil causes global warming" theory at the bus stop. I think it's just that Canadians are more into silent stares of disapproval.

Most movie theatres these days have a designated matinee time for parents + kids under three, often called "stars & strollers" or something equally cutesy. It saved my sanity a few times last year while I was at home with a newborn.

Of course, that assumes you have a schedule allowing for movies on a weekday afternoon.

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