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When you read Anne of Green Gables, you read a story told from the perspective of a young girl. According to my amateur diagnosis, she's a gifted young girl with (by Dabrowski's theory) emotional overexcitability. In colloquial terms, she's emotional; she hits all the peaks and valleys of emotional experience. Marilla is rather sharp with her ( Read more... )

13 years ago (approximately), we took an infant DJ to the midnight showing of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. She nursed occasionally, slept through the whole thing, and likely no one else in the theater knew she was there. It worked wonderfully. (In part, this was because we were young and were more resilient about late nights than we ( Read more... )

Our old house has been functioning as a rental for the past four years. It is now, finally, in the hands of a couple who want to buy it as soon as they can (and are renting it in the meantime). They brought their own refrigerator and stove with them, so they asked what they should do with the ones we'd had there ( Read more... )

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This was a Sunday, so we should expect some summary of the week type articles today.

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