Neil Gaiman's Bookshelves

( A beautiful day for a pride parade! )

Do not know why baby won't sleep! Actually, I think he's out, now at 9:30, but he didn't but catnap after 11 a.m.!

Happy Mothers Day to all those who are, all those who have, and all those who miss theirs.

Hope the rabbit is as sweet to you as he was to us!


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( Long and detailed, so cut so only those who want the whole story need read it. )

Owen Alexander Gillis arrived Friday, April 3 at 8:44 p.m. He is 21 inches long and weighed 7 lbs, 9 oz ( Read more... )

Keep responding! But tonight is out anyway - the act we wanted to see has laryngitis and will not be singing. Apparently there's another show tomorrow, so perhaps you can sway me one way or another.

Poll Contemplation

I would do so much more internet shopping if I didn't think people were generally soaking me on the shipping.

F'rinstance - I really want this fabric for the baby's room, but I can't find anyone to ship it to me for less than $10 US.

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Should We Burn Babar, Herbert Kuhl
This was a book of essays on children's literature, and how we explain culture and changes in culture with our kids as we read through classic books, and how some treatments of history we give to children still show cultural prejudices that are unfair to them. Good ideas, strange execution... but there was some ( Read more... )