Tuesday, October 18th, 2005
Henry’s friend Max: I know who Darth Vader is! Henry and Max in unison: It’s Anakin! Henry: So, I wonder – why did Anakin want to become Darth Vader? Max: Oh – I know! I know! They kept calling him “Annie” all the time and it made him really mad so he turned into Darth [...]
Overheard while driving carpool
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Sunday, October 16th, 2005
I just spent about 12 hours over 2 days learning about Movable Type. I haven’t thought this hard about this kind of stuff in a long time. My husband is a computer programmer, so it comes easily to him, but to my brain? not so much… I’m a content person, a words person. The HTML [...]
I learned HTML! Well, kinda…ok not really
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Tuesday, October 11th, 2005
This month, we’re reading The Plot Against America by Philip Roth. Once I discovered it wasn’t actually a left-wing political diatribe, I was eager to read it. (Not that I don’t enjoy my left-wing diatribes, i just was hoping for some good fiction.) It seemed promising enough – New York Times Booklist, etc. I had [...]
The Plot Against Plot
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Tuesday, October 4th, 2005
My five-year old son and I made cookies today. Henry loves to help me cook and bake. He runs the mixer for me, dumps in ingredients, and cracks eggs. Snickerdoodles are Henry’s very favorite kind of cookie and I needed something to serve my bible study, so that’s what we made. We finished creaming the [...]
Burnt Snickerdoodles
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