Last night Otto learned why we always tell him not to touch the stove. All better today, though it did make for a dramatic bedtime ( Read more... )

(This one is dedicated to commonreader.)

4. The word "playdate".

1. Safety culture. Slides are now designed to slow kids down. There are a million other examples of this. Horrible ( Read more... )

Otto has some kind of bug. Or maybe a bad reaction to the leftover chili we ate for dinner. Either way, he was up barfing every 20 minutes last night from 2 to 5:30. And then my alarm went off at 6 ( Read more... )

backwardslight posted a great Khalil Gibran quote in her journal today. I've seen this quote before, and every time I read it, it reminds me of the speech that Sidney Poitier delivers at the end of Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, which is a much angrier version of the same sort of sentiment to me (obviously, it has a lot of racial stuff bound up in it as well, ( Read more... )