I had the most amazing fun time last night celebrating at the house bar of the Obama for America office.  I am so glad I volunteered for this campaign for many reasons, not the least of which is that I did not feel one bit like a phony as I danced, martini in hand, to "Ain't no stopping us now." after CNN called Pennsylvania for Obama ( Read more... )

"On the giddy ride up, there had been no cop, no regulator to enforce basic rules of an American economy that had become the world's biggest casino.  Real estate in Florida, oil in Texas, wheat in Kansas, and stocks on Wall Street -- they had all had their time when gravity was willed into oblivion.  And the rules put in place on the way down, the ( Read more... )

Jay's travel piece about Rwanda is finally out in GQ.  He did this trip when Ruby was three months old.  It took a while for the magazine to find enough room to run the story this long.

You can read it here, but it looks so much cooler in the magazine.

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Have you ever been to The Grand Canyon of Pennsylvania?

I haven't either, but I'm going there tomorrow for a week.

A week in the woods, hooray!

Tuesday morning:

R:  Ruby no eat it the cat food.
J: That's right.  You don't eat it.
R: Cat eat it the cat food.
J: That's right.  The cat eats cat food.
R: Not Ruby.
J:Are you hungry for your own food?
R:(whispers) Cream cheese and crackers please.

We have been very busy playing here.  We get up and play our hearts out every day.  Today we met a friend with her young charge at the Camden Children's garden, which is the best place in Philadelphia to play with a toddler.  Never mind that it is in New Jersey...

On Monday we returned from almost two weeks in Vermont, where it was was quite rainy ( Read more... )

And Jaysus is it ever hot.  The "real feel" is supposed to be 107 today.  That's temperature plus humidity.  But because we love the earth, the air conditioners are set to 79, and we aren't doing laundry, etc. during peak electric use hours.  Probably we should turn the computer off and read, too.

You know that I get crankier for every degree over ( Read more... )

Big Brother is SO Convenient!  http://www.flyclear.com/about/clear_howclearworks.html

I am just now getting around to feeling sorry for myself for being sick.  I called in this morning, then called the pediatrician for R whose wheezing was so bad last night that we were afraid to put her in her room by herself.  After two albuterol treatments, the pediatrician decided that we could go home but we have to go back in tomorrow morning ( Read more... )