So we drove to Cherry Hill and bought an elliptical machine ( Read more... )

Wow, 1635: The Eastern Front is seriously bad. I've been putting up with the gender issues and the lengthy political and technical and historical detours, because they're interesting and serve plot, usually. And I've mostly enjoyed the series so far, and I want to keep up with the characters. But here, the detours overwhelm the plot completely, ( Read more... )

Santa Olivia has a sequel! How did I fail to notice this? (Is it any good?)

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Downsides of growing up poorer than
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My cheap glasses ordered on the internet in January broke last month, so I superglued them, but they lost some flexibility because of the superglue and were under more strain, so they broke again. I can superglue them again, but I think they're reaching the point of unfixability. So, what am I doing? Ordering another two pairs of cheap glasses on ( Read more... )

Navigating Love and AutismRan on page A1 of the NY Times on December 26, so you may have already read this ( Read more... )

Thirteen winters ago there was an awful March blizzard, during which a sad three-month-old black lab puppy materialized tied to our porch. Of the house that has since been foreclosed on, four blocks from my mom's current house. We had never had a dog before, but we kept her. I'm having trouble with the idea that it's been thirteen years ( Read more... )

We picked out a (Unitarian) Universalist church to go to for Christmas Eve, something I'd never done before. My mom ran into her seasonal boss, and I ran into a former classmate I hadn't seen since middle school. I suspect that the small adorable child sitting next to Rachael was her small adorable child, because they seemed to have that kind of ( Read more... )

I should always travel with
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