Noah wants to build a castle when he’s an adult. He’s talked about it for years now (when he was about two, he’d talk enthusiastically about the various animals and machines he’d soon have “At my house, next to [our friend] Tim’s house,” and then later expanded from this image of his own space to something rather [...]
As a socialist feminist parent who’s concerned about our environment, I love the commercialism that peaks around the Christmas season and encourages many of our culture’s most careless and brightly! colored! plastic! forms of gender role naturalization and gender policing. It just warms the heart, doesn’t it? There’s been lots of good writing around this theme [...]
Keva planks are among the best toys ever. We hesitated to buy them because they’re expensive and we weren’t sure whether Noah would play with them much, but we went for a 100-piece as a birthday gift this summer and are planning to get an additional 100- or 200-piece set soon because he keeps running [...]
An email he dictated to me, to send to Eric when he was off working on his dissertation one evening in late August: I liked the spinach pasta a lot and I love you more than two hundred barrels of monkeys. I really like writing with some help. I love our house and I love [...]
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links for thought, December 2011 (1 of 2)
from Dinosaur Comics, just some dinosaurs discussing routine newborn eye ointment (with a tip of the hat to Rebecca at Public Health Doula) from Analía R. Stormo, Nikki A. Hawkins, Crystale Purvis Cooper, and Mona Saraiya in The Archives of Internal Medicine, “The Pelvic Exam as a Screening Tool: Practices of US Physicians“–Unfortunately, the full [...]