Archives for December, 2008

The week before Christmas is often the hardest time of the year for me. Not for reasons you'd expect: I'm not worried about gifts, or ...


I. Baby Z has progressed from trying to pull herself forward with her lips to almost being over the army crawl. She can propel herself forward ...


I don't, A does. Less and less, and even less these days, but still. And every time he has a cold of the more bronchial ...


Baby Z can do it now: Big change from the less successful lip-crawling phase.* And non-groaning phase. Also note: how I torture my child by moving ...


My sister-in-law sent me this photo of Baby Z and her one year older cousin at Thanksgiving: I saw it and almost died of all the ...


So there's an actual report that found what anyone who's ever adjunct-taught a college course probably already knew: that adjuncting is overall BAD (via Bitch.Ph.D.). ...


Seems to be a universal problem: babies who refuse to sleep. I blame an Englishman named William Willett for our sleep problems. Well, at least partly ...


I. Celebratory I meant to write a special post to my daughter but made the mistake of keeping it in my head too long and it ...