Shifting Sands Challenge ( Read more... )

It will probably be the last time. We have been doing it since she was 3, every spring. Her with the stickum and wires on her head, sitting in a hospital bed, plugged into a machine that watches her brain. The room is also rigged to record sound and vid. No privacy-- well hospitals don't offer that ( Read more... )

Every night almost, now, I am on the same train at the same time to Stillwell ave. I am one of those hopeful looking people panting up the subway steps, to catch a particular car. And I see the same people doing the same, people who have lives that synchronize with mine. I have made two friends, so far. One is a friendly woman about my age, who ( Read more... )

Read these one after another, before I had sip one of my tea ( Read more... )

I am reading a book about the formation of empathy in kids. It is talking a lot about the limbic system, and mirror neurons, some of it I knew already, but much is new ( Read more... )

My hometown has a local paper. It is full of the news of the people who live there, It is a good little paper, it tells what to plant, who needs help, when the high tide will come, or the snow. It tells about church bake sales, and new babies, all of that ( Read more... )

New York Times must not have had a lot to say today. They somehow decided today was the day to deploy an article on the lifestyle of roly-polies. (Also called pillbugs.) Well, they are supposed to be a paper of record, so this will be saved for the ages I am sure ( Read more... )

When my kids played in the snow I always worried about them bieng hit by cars, or snowplows that could not see them. I never actually went so far as to worry about this. What brave little guys, good boys.http://online.wsj.com/

I want to go to the beach, alone.The empty beach, of my childhood, which is closed to me now, even should I go to what was home ( Read more... )

At my childhood home we had many books from the 1860's through 1880s. they had belonged to my grandmother, and her sisters, and her mother, when they were kids. I often used to read them. They mostly seemed to feature kids doing naughty things-- going skating when forbidden to do so, or being careless around fire, or refusing to eat what was put ( Read more... )