( We had quite the weekend! )

So I started a new blog. It's not meant to replace this one, because I think of livejournal as the place where I write about the minutiae of my daily life, random things I think about, etc., whereas the blog is for writing about books that I'm reading and what I'm thinking about them.

Here's the link to my book blog in case you'd like to check it ( Read more... )

I don't have anything to say about Osama bin Laden that hasn't already been said. But I will say that it was a pretty surreal night, last Sunday ( Read more... )

Overdue update ( Read more... )

The Cooks Source debacle has been very interesting to watch and got me thinking in all kinds of interesting directions.

In case you missed this nuclear explosion on the internet yesterday, here's basically what happened: A woman named Monica Gaudio (illadore) discovered that an article she wrote a while ago had been reprinted without her permission in a ( Read more... )

I posted the other day that I had decided to contact Isaac's teacher and guidance counselor for help dealing with Isaac's feelings about grandma having cancer. I don't know whether I adequately expressed in my previous post how much I have been worrying about Isaac. He is not a kid who talks much, or willingly, about how he feels; any effort to ( Read more... )

I feel bad about all the things I never post here. I feel bad for you because you're missing out. ;) Heh, not really. I feel bad because I want to get that stuff out. In large part I think of this journal as my memory book for later, and I hate that lately I lack the time/energy/whatever to write the stuff down, and future-me won't have much to go ( Read more... )

Also I forgot that I wanted to link you to this article from the Cambridge Chronicle about our choir, the Cambridge Community Chorus, which is performing our Twentieth! Anniversary! Concert! on December 13th. My mom and I are quoted in the article, because we have been with the chorus since the beginning as a mother/daughter team, from when I was a ( Read more... )

* Isaac's birthday party was this past Saturday. Once again the weather gods smiled upon me and it was a fabulous party. We live a charmed life, people. I hope I shall have time to put together a slightly lengthier post about it soonish ( Read more... )

The latest "news" as of yesterday is that a new study has found the rates of single motherhood in the USA rising dramatically over the past few years. As of 2007, it's estimated that nearly 40% of all babies being born in the US are born to unmarried women. Significantly, this includes women who live with partners but simply haven't chosen to get ( Read more... )