“There’s something wrong with our worm, Earl”

Harlando’s 9th birthday party was held at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. To help the 8 kids stay entertained and burn off energy, B&F devised a loooooooooooong list of scavenger hunt questions that sent the kids tearing across the museum for a couple of hours, until they uncovered the secret phrase “There’s something wrong [...]

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Harlando conducts an attack

I’m just back from 4 days in Cleveland with friends, where we celebrated a traditional Jewish Christmas with Chinese food, movies and games-games-games.  That’s what I call family values. The movie BH & I snuck away to see in the theater—The King’s Speech—was beautifully done. Colin Firth (who so often seems to play an American’s stereotype of a stuffy upper-class Englishman in American-made movies) was really moving.  See it in the theater before [...]

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Grape crow pie: Or, Since you’ve been gone away

I miss clevergretel.  Perhaps even more so since she’s started posting to her blog again. But I am glad she’s posting. 

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The four faces of Pickles

#1:  Inquisitive     #2:  Excited!    #3:  Delighted!    #4: Well Satisfied    All photos by Catalpa.

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On the road to Cinci

Last weekend I drove to Cinci to visit Catalpa, Lincoln, Bartleby, and the baby–Pickles. Back in the ’80s, I used to drive up and down I-65 between Chicago and Indi regularly, and I’ve always thought of it as a boring/relaxing drive (relaxing because it’s so boring).  But I don’t think I’ve ever done it before in [...]

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Thirteen years ago, I threw a shower for a brand new baby boy named Steven Avram.  There were a bunch of theater and English grad students there (including his mother), and Steven received a lot of plastic bathtub-ready baby books, which were opened amidst jokes about Baby’s First Grammatology.  This weekend I flew to Cleveland for Steven’s bar mitzvah, [...]

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