If you’ve ever read to your kids at all, you know that children’s authors tend to take a whole lot of liberty with their rhymes. Don’t get me wrong, I love me some Margaret Wise Brown, but rhyming moon with … moon? I call shenanigans. Enter The Seven Silly Eaters, by Mary Ann Hoberman. Both […]
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Sticking it to Father Time
Two rookies hurtle into the unfamiliar
I’ve noticed lately that time is starting to pass more quickly than my brain can fully comprehend. I find myself stuttering every time I say, “Two thousand, uh, 10.” I frequently misrepresent my age, unintentionally subtracting a year or two. I think of the ‘90s as being “a few years ago.” (News flash: Even 1999 […]
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Two-wheeling it
I know for whom the (bicycle) bell tolls
Any day now my husband and I are going to become Real Grown-Ups. Like the kind with actual jobs and mortgages and I don’t know, balanced meals and stuff. We’re on year AHEM of our one-income, student-loan-receiving, renting-instead-of-owning married life, and yearn for the day when we’ll walk straight past the generic mac-and-cheese and load […]
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