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Not much to say this week. The Scheherazade experiment is going great. We’re two thirds of the way through Despereaux and he is really enjoying it. I have started work on a new book- a YA novel- of which I […]

My husband and I made all the usual sorts of mistakes that new parents make with my son. Giving into tantrums, encouraging him to believe he was the center of the universe, picking up after him, and tragically and worst […]

What a beautiful balmy day it is today! We’ve had enough of a cold snap in upstate NY-a series of sub 32 degree nights, to shock the trees into flamboyant displays of color. The mountains are mantled in deep russets […]

ALTHOUGH ITS EARLY DAYS YET, IVE BEEN THINKING ABOUT MY HALLOWEEN COSTUME FOR WEEKS ALREADY. STILL NOT SURE WHETHER TO GO KRAZY GLOO OR HOT GLUE GUN. DOES SYNTHETIC HAIR CATCH ON FIRE? ANYWAY MY SON HAS BEEN PLANNING HIS […]

My favorite time of night or early morning is that blurry, dark slice of dawn where I exist in a sort of half wakefulness when I squint my eyes just enough to read the clock on the far wall and […]

I thought I’d post one of my favorite pictures of my darling boy when he was 2 1/2 and we didn’t cut his hair.

Today on my walk about four or five chipmunks darted across the road in front of me, one at a time. It was like they were playing chicken or something. Perhaps it was a rite of passage. You know, run […]

I’m not sure who it was- the British minister of education, perhaps, who announced that reluctant readers, most of whom are boys, should be encouraged to read Dickens rather than comic books. Now, I love Dickens and I even quite […]

Just finished watching David Attenborough’s excellent dvd series “Planet Earth” for the third time. I have been a fan of his since I was a kid. I used to watch him on television and take notes, and my copy of […]

I’ve often wondered- even before I had my own kids- about where people get their goodness from. Their innate goodness I mean, the moral fiber, not learned behavior like not belching in public and not taking the biggest slice of […]