The rain prediction contest is still on! (Sorry, Melissa, there is no overwhelming support for “calling it” after the quick downpour last week. I think we are longing for something substantial, something urban-metro-wide, something involving at least one road closure.) In any case, we’re still waiting, y’hear? I love these summer clouds, love our local [...]

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A lovely musing on inadvertent cosleeping (for lack of a better phrase–what else to call it? when the kids end up in your bed?) I was just thinking about this the other day–about how we don’t usually know that something is happening for the Last Time. And also about sleep, how it’s sort of completely [...]

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It’s about time for my regular round of links to articles I’ve read/liked lately. Note that I rarely post reviews of books that I read. That is, of course, because I rarely read books. I used to, but no more. So without further ago, the incomparable Virginia Heffernan, on digital photography and parenting. (She also [...]

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