March 2011
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Evening Ditty
Daughter,
I want to be with you
scratching color onto sheets of paper
while you laugh.
Are you laughing at me?
I am happy to be the source of your amusement.
Laugh at me,
I will sit here smiling for many years
your laughter
will fall on me like the rain
the snow
the twisting leaves
and the rays of the sun.
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Coming Soon: Free Time!
Now that we know for sure Kidlet will be starting part-time preschool this fall, the question of what to do with those eight, free daytime hours per week presented itself. My initial idea was that I’d start volunteering. Maybe at the MOHAI or maybe somewhere else. But that didn’t sound good enough. Preschool costs money; shouldn’t I be doing something to move our family forward?...
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From Nate Dogg to Paul Erdős
Another late night Wikipedia rabbit hole: informing Hubster of Nate Dogg’s death today led to reading about strokes and then, amphetamines … apparently, Paul Erdos used amphetamines. And what an interesting man he was, all his 83 years. Hubster had recently watched N is a Number, the documentary about Erdos’ life, but he didn’t know the story of Erdos’ suggestion for...
