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• Getting rid of a miserable headache that has been plaguing me this morning.  Feel foggy, tired, draggy and aching. And then I look at the below:

• Cleaning up my office floor
• lunch with the kids at 11:30 at Chama Gaucha (Meredith Grace’s favorite place to eat - but expensive enough we only hit it for very special occasions.)
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The local suburban daily newspaper, the Daily Herald, is reprinting the Newsweek story on the twins with different photos:

http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=342760

http://www.newsweek.com/id/225492/page/1
The Power of Two:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/225098
Photo gallery of the kids, etc.  The Intro picture is particularly stunning.

This has been in the works since spring.  Newsweek came in with a Pulitzer-award winning photographer who was fresh from covering the White House and Obama and Bush to do the shots ( Read more... )

The family has taken up a new and very nice practice; having family reading times - not scheduled as such, but so everyone has something good to read and is in the living room together reading.  It works pretty well, I think, and is an improvement over endless oh-I-can’t-watch-that debates about TV stuff.

Tastes run like this for entertainment:

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Saw it with the family today; Mere and Kay have been whomped with allergies, and I think they’re turning into sinus infections.  The kids hate taking stuff for the allergies and hate the nasal sprays, but they hate worse being sick.

In any event, I wasn’t all that thrilled with the film, mostly because so much got screwed around with or cut.  ( Read more... )

Cecil Adams on Jim Butcher’s DRESDEN series (which I have not read; I saw a couple of the TV shows based on it) and how it does and doesn’t fit the realities of Chicago - and a bit on the ‘underground’ of Chicago (mostly downtown).

LJ: cedarseed is in Ethiopia; I’ve always been intrigued by the classical end of Ethiopian civilization (I need to pick up a Budge book on Ethiopian magic one of these days) and love looking at classic Ethiopian art.    Some good photos; check it out and her LJ in general.

Jay Lake and his family (especially his daughter, who, like mine, originated ( Read more... )