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Objects in mirror are closer than they appear

Most North Americans are familiar with the warning “Objects in mirror are closer than they appear.” If you’ve ever wondered why objects in your car mirror are closer than they appear, or why the passenger side mirror carries this warning but not the driver’s side – wonder no more! The thrilling answer is here! I…

May 1, 2012
My little guy

Henry took his first major spill today. He tumbled out of my mom’s arms (from a pretty low height) and bruised his face. He was having a helluva morning. I took him to the doctor to make sure he was ok. He seemed fine, just upset. He kept stroking his fingers under his eye and…

April 30, 2012
Delightful oddity

Part of my job is to put together a daily worldwide e-newsletter. So a few days before the start of a new month, I create a folder for that month that contains the blank word documents that will become the drafts of the newsletter. They all say the day of the week and date at…

April 26, 2012
Grammar – just try harder, please

You get judged by the way you write. You (and I) probably get judged on a lot more than that, honestly, but grammar has a certain set of rules that you can be judged on in your absence, in the case of the written word. Everyone makes mistakes. It happens. Habitual inconsistencies, however, point to…

April 25, 2012
Death Cab for Cutie

Last night Bob took me to see Death Cab for Cutie featuring Magik*Magik Orchestra. It was an early birthday gift. We also went out for sushi. Let me tell you all about it. To begin with, Bob bought a pair of tickets in the second row of the balcony, then realized he could get tickets…

April 25, 2012
Levon

Levon Helm – subject for the eponymous song by Elton John, drummer for The Band, one-time cancer survivor – is in his final stages of his fight with cancer. UPDATED: Levon died April 19, 2012. For Bob’s birthday one year, I got him tickets to a Midnight Ramble, at Levon’s house in Woodstock, NY. It…

April 19, 2012
An absence of criticism

I’m currently reading Mike Monteiro’s book, Design is a Job. He writes, “A designer requires honest feedback and real criticism, and that’s not going to happen in a realm where colleagues or clients are worried about crushing the spirit of a magical being. The sparkly fog of affirmation gets in the way.”* It may be…

April 18, 2012
Just like twins!

Not to put too fine a point on it, but the only thing that is “just like” twins is twins. The closest legitimate thing I can think of that compares is the case of one of the other mamas in my online multiples community; she adopted her daughter and shortly thereafter gave birth (within a…

April 17, 2012
And sometimes Y

For the past month or so I’ve been increasingly bothered by the sometimes-vowel “Y.” And consequently, I’ve been bothering my husband about it. Specifically, I’ve wondered when is Y considered a vowel, and when is it not? And why? Shouldn’t it always be one or the other or always both? I finally looked it up…

April 16, 2012
Google Search Bar

Even though I’m the one running the Google searches that end up in my Google search bar, every time one catches my eye, I’m always taken aback. It’s partly “what the…?” and partly “how did it know I was thinking that? Oh, right.” I’m sure the conglomeration of all those searches would paint a very…

April 13, 2012