Image credit: Photo by Alejandro Castro on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons It was true love, the moment I saw it. I was bathed in light and heard angels singing (no, really, that wasn't just the glow for the screen and the background music for the ad). There it was: The Beatles Rock Band, a [...]
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A Game of Chess
Image credit: Photo by FJTU (a veces on-line) on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons My husband Mark recently taught our 5-year-old daughter, Janie, the basics of chess, and she has been fascinated by it. As I was playing with her this morning (and she was instructing me where to move so that she could capture [...]
The Missing Shoe
Image credit: Photo by malik ml williams on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons We faced a major crisis recently: I couldn't find one of my son's shoes. And his shoe was not just missing, but missing at the worst possible time: moments before the bus was due to arrive. Now, it's not that Austen doesn't [...]
Parenting Is Not Child’s Play
Before I had kids, I loved playing. At age 30, I owned a wide array of board games as well as a vast nerdly display of toys -- an X-Files Scully Barbie and Mulder Ken, Star Wars action figures, a poseable Godzilla and several favorite stuffed animals. I played regularly with my friends, and I [...]
