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i thought i’d escaped the cold that the kid brought home from school the other week, but i was fooled. it was just biding its time, and when it finally struck last thursday, it gave little indication that it would be sticking around for more than a week, and certainly no warning at all that [...]

ok, fine. we watch “masterchef“. even though i hate the clunky musical cues, the repetitive editing, the explanations and narrations by the contestants even as the very events unfold right before our eyes… the kid does not really mind — she usually gives her own running commentary over the top of the soundtrack anyway, though [...]

As mentioned in my previous post, I'd like to write a little bit about pregnancy and childbirth in Japan. I...

There is no signage. There's hardly any room to sit down. The woman who runs the show is bleating with gusto into her mobile phone. Is this an establishment that serves food to the public? You betcha! In so many...

SIGN IT HERE: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/m0i9l10k/ The Petition TO THE HONOURABLE THE SPEAKER and MEMBERS of the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES THIS PETITION of certain citizens of Australia draws to the attention of the House that: MILK – the food – has been fundamental to human nutrition and health for millennia. The domestication of cattle, sheep, goats and [...]

A student who reads my blog recently commented that the cutesy references (bun in the oven, etc) in my announcement...

We left tawny, arid southeastern Turkey a week ago. And I'm missing the coffee. Clearing the cobwebs at dawn in Gaziantep, Mardin, and Midyat was never a challenge because every tea house also serves coffee. Not the case, we found,...

On the to-do list of most pregnant women in Japan is a visit to a shrine, to pray for a...

When I started tweeting a few months ago, my blogging mojo was resurrected. In May, I posted more than I have in years, consistently every few days. I've been sitting up later than I should to put the links and...

we don’t get to ballast point park often enough; it’s just that bit further than a regular after-school jaunt. also, it’s not quite your regular park in the traditional sense of the word, with trees and grass and playground. what there is, on the site of the former caltex fuel depot, is a lot of [...]