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November 2008

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• commentary

  What do you think this is, France or something? *Updated*

  11.23.08 | Permalink | 21 Comments

  Despite early encouraging signs about the availability and eagerness of teenage babysitters out here in Seagull Fountain, we have yet to secure a minder for the coveted Friday night date slot. Today in church the Young Women (12-18 years old) sang that testimony song, and boy! did they look pure and wholesome and ready to [...]

• marriage

  What I see when I see you

  11.22.08 | Permalink | 15 Comments

  I found my place at college when I applied for Writing Fellows. I’d settled on English as a major after trying out everything from pre-med to American Studies, and the idea of telling people what was wrong with their writing, for money, was too appealing to pass up. I adored the other Fellows: the smart, [...]

• movies

  The Camera Doesn’t Lie: Bella Really is a Whack Job

  11.21.08 | Permalink | 23 Comments

  The end. No — if you liked the books (the Twilight books, that is), you’ll probably like the movie. Even though Edward seems to be fighting dysenterial vomiting at the beginning rather than a burning desire for Bella’s blood, and even though Rosalie looks fat and ugly. (Sorry. I realize she’s probably a size 2, [...]

• Spot

  Drinking Buddies

  11.20.08 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  I have three daughters. My sister has two daughters and a son. (I was going to say that she is lucky to have a mix of genders, but I don’t know how to phrase that without making it sound like I regret having three daughters, which I don’t, except when I think of poor Dick [...]

• motherhood

  The Truth About Babywearing — *Updated*

  11.19.08 | Permalink | 24 Comments

  I wasn’t going to write about this because, although I Twitter, I’m not usually on much on weekends, so I missed the brouhaha over the Motrin Babywearing commercial. {Background: Motrin ran an ad about back pain caused by babywearing that was “consdescending, patronizing and poorly thought-out.” Babywearing mothers everywhere were outraged and twittered until Motrin [...]

• works for me

  The Mod Podge Squad

  11.18.08 | Permalink | 10 Comments

  Once again I bring you a tip that I am probably the last person on earth to hear about it. (Last time it was my mother’s revolutionary microwave-cleaning method). Have you heard of this stuff? It’s great. You smear it on a surface (like wood, glass, metal), then on a flat object (fabric, photographs, stickers, [...]

• parenting, Spot

  Compromise

  11.17.08 | Permalink | 13 Comments

  I leave it to you to guess which pieces she insisted on and which pieces Mom gently persuaded her into. I plan to assert myself when it actually snows, though. She WILL wear socks with those flipflops, if it’s the last thing I do. Jane p.s. Dick was thinking to himself this morning (early, as [...]

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