When we went to the movies last weekend there was an ad for a miniseries on The History Channel, "Mankind." I thought it was annoying that they were so unimaginative that they could not come up with a better, more inclusive title, but I didn't think much about it ( Read more... )

Last weekend I looked over B's shoulder while he was checking his fantasy football. I try to glance over his shoulder a lot while he is on the computer, but if I see the ESPN green border I don't look too closely. I figure there isn't going to be anything on ESPN.com that I would need to monitor. I looked, though, at his fantasy matchup last ( Read more... )

On my list of possible stories this morning I wrote "back to school hookup culture." We didn't end up doing it, but that does not mean that I didn't read Hanna Rosin in The Atlantic or obsess over this scholarly article by Lisa Wade and Caroline HeldmanMy interest in hookup culture is more than academic. I have a boy and a girl I am going to shove ( Read more... )

B came home from computer camp all enthusiastic. He made some program that sounded like a C++ version of The Dozens, liked the kid at the station next to him. This is the only week of day camp he's going to have all summer ( Read more... )

More on Sally Ride. I can't believe how shocked and saddened by her death. It seemed - felt, I remember feeling this - like the beginning of something back when I was 13 years old. As an adult, I am already vividly aware how few young women go into physics and engineering (even as E and I are doing our best to expose animal-loving R to life ( Read more... )

( after all that ... (Brave spoilers) )

One of the articles of the moment is Anne-Marie Slaughter's long piece in the Atlantic about why it isn't possible for women in the highest ranks of business and government to really have it all. You can't work the hours needed to do these highest of jobs well and have time for a family ( Read more... )

E had a babysitting job this afternoon so I sat with R while she did her homework. One of the pages was about blended consonants. There was a set of words at the top and questions she was supposed to answer with the words. She got through the first few while I was reading a cookbook ( Read more... )

When R came back from swimming today she was shivering in her wetsuit, just like always. "Go get in a nice warm shower," I told her. "You have time for one before dinner ( Read more... )

I rode my bike over to Oakland today to Kaiser. They have walk-in mammograms and they'd sent me an email back in June and called on the phone today to get me over there. It was the fastest Kaiser visit I've every had - 20 minutes - and in the small percentage of that time I spent in reception, I totally fell in love with the receptionist ( Read more... )