It’s about one in the afternoon, the weather is gorgeous, and Bart’s in the driveway, mounting our bikes on the bike rack. I’ve made sandwiches and in a few minutes, we’re heading out to do some biking downtown. It really pleases me when we do fun things on the weekend. I hate it when the weekend, which we’ve so looked…
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Feel Free to Ignore Me
If you don’t watch Lost, you can probably wander right on past this post and straight to abc.com where you should immediately start watching Season 1 of Lost. If you skip work tomorrow and don’t sleep all weekend, you could be about caught up by Monday. Anyway, I’m freakin’ out over how much I love Lost. It doesn’t infuriate me…
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Taking Pictures
Twice in the last 24 hours, I’ve seen a reference to the trouble with asking strangers to take pictures for them. After all, it’s a bit of a tricky situation. You try to ask the most likely candidate (someone who looks like they know how to operate a camera) but if they screw up, it’s hard to go from there….
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All The Small Things
I am excellent at being excited. When my parents announced in December that we were going to go back to Disneyland this year, I was thrilled. From Christmas until the actual trip, ten weeks later, I was always monitoring how close the trip was from that very moment. “Only six weeks until we go!” “Twelve days from today, we’ll be…
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The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
The Caldecott Medal is given out each year (at the same time as the Newbery by the ALA) to the artist of the most “distinguished American picture book for Children.” Award-winning books that you might be familiar with include Make Way for Ducklings, Where the Wild Things Are, and The Polar Express. This year the winner, The Invention of Hugo…
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