Bread and Roses

We signed LB up.  She is officially a 6%er having gotten into her new school by lottery. It's a small community charter dual language sc...

My facebook feed has been full of two streams: anxious anticipation of the Supreme Court's hearing of a challenge to state bans on gay m...

Finally, I got a picture of my little girl in the big snow!  Blurry and shadowed, but I just wanted a New England picture for posterity. ...

I just signed a lease on a new apartment for March 1.  A nice, plain two bedroom in a sunny 2nd floor unit.  It's $50 a month cheaper th...

The snow started slow this afternoon, but now it's really starting to blow out there.  And it's my first blizzard alone in ten ye...

After the success of project Christmas paper chain, and upon realizing the excessive amount of art supplies building in our closet, and in p...

Just to keep it real, LB is intermittently shrieking as I write this post. It was a good LB weekend.  It didn't start that well when B...

That's the new morning song in the preschool 2 class.  LB is moving on up on Tuesday, thankfully with her classmates.  And her new tea...

What haven't we done in Portland?  This city deserves a summer list all it's own.  Highlights include: Oregon Brewers' Fest (y...

This summer has proven surprisingly complicated.  And those complications have shifted my vision of a good summer. Family stuff done more...

See how I did that?  Aren't you excited to read stuff in list form?  Don't you wish I was including gifs? 1.  My first "open ...

This list has been making the rounds on the internets, re: dangers faced by children of the 1970s .  Aside from the Jarts, yeah, this was pr...

Rhode Island has an inferiority complex, apparently we came in last in a poll of state residents who rate their state THE BEST place to live...

We've got problems. This morning brings news that yet another friend (a parent and a teacher) is fleeing city schools, in this case th...

It's been a week of work, and vomiting, and meetings, with just a little bit of the rage virus added in for good measure.  I finished my...

  I survived my first week at my new job.  I week during which B was on the other side of the country for her job (which, from what I s...

Providence, Rhode Island is one. I came home yesterday with a shrieking LB, turned on the tap, and nothing happened.  I left a message for...

At some point on Sunday, B leaned over and said "should we feel guilty that we aren't spending Mothers' Day with our daughter?...

Like everyone else I was horrified and freaked out and saddened by the bombing at the Boston Marathon.  I'm also a bit mystified by the ...

LB's obsession with kittycats has reached a new high and she is fascinated by the skittish feral cats who live on our block.    Recently...