A few days ago I was parking my car in a parking lot near the field where I was to meet my mom and the kids for Little League. It so happened that the building I parked in front of houses our veterinarian's office. On the steps of the house next door to the vet's, two little boys were hanging out ( Read more... )

I mentioned here recently that Isaac has gotten interested in US geography, and grandma got him a placemat with a US map. Tonight he started quizzing me on the state capitals. I thought I did pretty well, considering that it has been about 25 years since I last needed to know most of that stuff. ;) Just like when I was a kid, I got tripped up on ( Read more... )

Isaac: "Mama, I'll say something and you say the opposite."
Me: "Okay."
Isaac: "Um...I'm a bird."
Me: "I'm not a bird."
Isaac: "No! That's not what you say!"
Me: "Well, what's the opposite of bird?"
Isaac: "Dog!"
[...]
Isaac: "I'm a person."
Me: "I'm a horse."
Isaac: "No!!! You say 'I'm an animal'!"

This morning in CVS, I spotted a display of Father's Day cards that made me do a quite literal double-take ( Read more... )

There are several blind or visually-impaired people living in the Davis Square area, who use guide dogs. I occasionally see them going about their business when I'm going about mine. Once or twice I've even ridden the bus with them and their dogs ( Read more... )

This guy is my new hero. :)

Jeff Deck and Benjamin Herson have a different objective in mind as they motor across the country this spring in their '97 Nissan Sentra. [...] They seek, in short, to do for America's public signage what spell-check software has done for interoffice e-mail: smarten it up and make it easier on the eye. Their weapons: ( Read more... )

Well, mostly anyway ( Read more... )

Well, my car is allegedly fixed (again). The mechanic left a message this morning that he had replaced the starter. (to reiterate: HA!) He didn't mention how much it was going to run me, so I get to remain blissfully ignorant for another few hours ( Read more... )

Brr!! It's cold today! This morning when we left the house it was eleven degrees F. It's all the way up to 19 now. With a wind chill of ten below. Whee ( Read more... )

Well, we survived yesterday. It wasn't the best day ever, but we got through it with minimal drama, which I think is the best that could be hoped for considering how it got started ( Read more... )