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So I’ve finished Rob Lowe’s Stories I Only Tell My Friends, and for the most part I liked it. I’ve never been a huge Rob Lowe fan–I’ve liked his more recent work on The West Wing and Parks & Recreation,… Read moreThe Lowe Down: One More Celebrity Memoir
A Very Model Halloween on YouTube It’s never too early to start coming up with costume ideas. 25 Handy Words That Simply Don’t Exist in English on So Bad So Good I think #23 is my favorite. Seasonal Ingredient Map… Read more5 Things I Found While I Was Looking Around
The feel of a clean, dry bathmat beneath my feet. The time to read an entire magazine, uninterrupted. Macadamia nuts. A leisurely bike ride on a cool, sunny day. A box of sea-salt chocolate caramels that no one else knows… Read moreLittle Luxuries
I’ve always loved to read. I started reading on my own at age four and just kept going. I almost always have a book with me (particularly now that I have an iPod Touch with the Kindle app), and I… Read moreOn Reading
It’s been a while for me–well, not that I haven’t been reading, but I haven’t been reading books about parents and/or families, or related issues. Meanwhile, Baguette has been exhibiting an interest in Caring for Your Baby and Young Child:… Read moreRead Any Good Books Lately?
I’m sure I’m #101! Right? Right? Because I’ve been doing this for five whole months now, so surely I’m qualified. Overqualified, at that. Seriously, while most of these are unfamiliar to me (I read a lot, but not 100-mom-blogs worth),… Read moreBabble.com’s Top 100 Mom Bloggers
I think there might be a whole blog just in mocking the New York Times column “What I Wore.” While I fully recognize that years of subscribing to In Style made me think that ridiculously expensive candles were not unreasonable,… Read moreIs It Just Me? Or Is This Ludicrous?
I’m sure that by now you’ve seen the video of the baby who concludes that a magazine is nothing but a broken iPad: So you’ll understand why I was reminded of it yesterday when Baguette found a couple of loose… Read moreBabies and Tech
You know how sometimes everything hits at once? This is one of those times. Somehow every project I have at work is at a crunch point. One of them seems headed into some sort of death spiral (naturally, this is… Read moreOne of Those Weeks
I’ve been reading books by mothers lately, partly due to the Motherlode book club. Here are some passages that particularly struck me: The Good-Enough Mother, by Rene Syler with Karen Moline On imagination: “Children need to know that the power… Read moreWords of Wisdom