Catlin: I think I want to go to prison.
Me: Oh? Why?
Caitlin: You get to sleep until 8:30, have breakfast, go to an art class, and play basketball all afternoon.
Scotty: You don’t like basketball.
Caitlin: Well . . . (cute smile)
She doesn’t really want to go to prison, she meant Juvie hall. Not that she really wants […]
I lost my taste for Peeps a few years back. Now Robin’s Eggs are way too sweet. However, I’m not so mature that I don’t find dark chocolate irresistible. Too bad that when you do your Easter shopping Saturday night all the good stuff is gone. Or at least what I consider the good […]
While the LeDucs are headed for Bangkok we went to South of the Boarder. Instead of tropical plants and interesting buildings we saw concrete and schlock. But enjoyed it anyway. The schlock wasn’t as bad as I had remembered – the global market has brought more interesting things including an entire store called “Africa” which […]
It is that time of year again. This year there seemed to be a lot of articles about the science of winning a pool. (Don’t pick too many upsets, don’t pick the obvious favorites to win it all, etc.) In this family to beat Scotty all you need is an ABC strategy (anyone but Carolina) […]
About a week ago we were notified that Verizon would be putting in a fiber optic network in our neighborhood. Soon after the flags appeared in lawns all over the neighborhood marking the utilities – yellow for gas, red for electric, and orange for the phone. Our gas line comes in around the back of […]
The Post Style section had a useful article detailing call girl economics. Apparently $4,300 was “shockingly high”. This was just the kind of article I thought was useful to point out to the girls (who are of course well aware of the scandal.) However, Caitlin thought that the $300 to $500 most high priced prostitutes […]
Our earliest daffodils are blooming and I have brought a few inside. The later ones are just clumps of very dark green stalks growing about eight inches high out of the winter brown garden. There is a flush of red on the trees as the buds are beginning and my roses are sprouting green leaves. […]
If he has any sense at all by the time I’m done posting this Eliot Spitzer will have resigned. I can’t believe he hasn’t done it already. As one commentator said, “It doesn’t seem hypocritical, it is hypocritical.”
Now if I were his wife many things would bother me – the cheating, the public humiliation, […]
Caroline was born in the wrong year. First there were lots of stories about record number of college applications complete with list of schools and the percentage increase over the previous records. And these lists invariable included some schools that Caroline had applied to. And now come the stories detailing how declines in enrollment are […]
I had hoped today would be a new beginning in the campaign, but instead it is more of the same. I’ve got primary fatigue. I’ve even lost interest in the clever names given to each Tuesday primary. Although “Crucial Tuesday” really did sum things up.
I’m blaming all those columnist who wrote the “It is […]