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Saturday morning at breakfast

Posted in Kid updates, Photos, tagged , on October 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Time really does fly when you’re six, and the big events just pile up right on top of each other.  It was only last Wednesday that this hapened.  And on Saturday, a few minutes into our cereal and toast, I noticed this:
Dar had not noticed.  The pearly white itself was lost and presumed digested.  After [...]

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And that’s the tooth!

Posted in Kid updates, tagged , on October 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »

This afternoon when I got to the door, Dar was writing very intently/intensely on a piece of note-sized paper.  This is anything but unusual, but it became clear as I came in the house, to the usual chorus of barkings and screamings and such, that Dar was concentrating on something that she wanted to finish [...]

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A novel in letters

Posted in Language(s), tagged on October 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

It bears mentioning that on my visit yesterday to WWS, I was the beneficiary of a former member’s generosity. Someone who has left the Workspace, whom I may never have actually met, is moving to New York and has left behind an unwanted portion of her book collection for my fellow members and me [...]

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Everybody’s doing it

Posted in Language(s), Site updates, tagged , on October 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Yesterday I spent my lunch hour at The Writers Workspace with a bunch of real writers (that is, professionals) discussing various key concepts, practical and theoretical, about blogging. (There was a time when I found the pseudo-contraction “blog” to be so contrived that I refused to use it. I called these things “sites” [...]

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Boy clothes, part 1

Posted in Chicago, Photos, tagged , on October 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Last Thursday it fell to me to dress the boy. It’s sweatshirt weather–for the first time in his experience, actually, but that’s another story. So I grabbed a pair of gray sweatpants, then a gray sweatshirt. I looked at the sweatshirt briefly to see if I’d happened upon a matched set. [...]

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The lettr E

Posted in Language(s), Site updates, tagged , , on October 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Three quick notes on E:
1. I have no idea why the people at flickr left out the E, but it’s certainly memorable. It’s also free to have a flickr account with unlimited uploads if you have DSL with AT&T, and therefore we put all our photos on flickr. When we remember, that [...]

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