Mimiboo Too

that my daughter is lying next to me in bed with a big lotion bottle, a slightly smaller tube of sunscreen, and a mini tube of sunscreen, and telling herself a story about the daddy and the mommy and the baby? The Sunscreen Family? Only they aren’t sunscreen, they’re BIRDS, as she just informed me. [...]

Mimi: Boo, did you know fish have soft heads, like us? And turtles have hard heads? Like Papa?

I used to get a copy of all my comments in my email, but since the upgrade I haven’t been getting them, and I can’t figure out why. Not a huge deal, but it does make it harder to respond individually. Therefore I’m copping out on getting back to everyone and doing a general response [...]

Have you seen the “Alex” ad? Agree or disagree, it makes a powerful point. A hundred years is a long freaking time. My kids. My grandkids. Maybe my great-grandkids.
I know in the end it’s not my choice, but theirs.
I try to keep politics off this space, but this year it’s going to be hard.
You Can’t [...]

I am too tired for any sort of narrative thought.
So the Red Wings won the Stanley Cup. I’m good with that — I was more excited about Barack Obama finally securing the Dem nomination (and holy cow, what a speech he gave!) — but the rest of my family is extremely geeked about it. [...]