Archives for “real life”

I've been away a long time. Not physically, just internet-ly. But perhaps it's time to return. I won't make firm promises about writing every day ...

Things are changing. We live here now, since a little over a week ago: I love Manhattan.

I shan't be going to Blogher this year after all. Why? Well. A has to travel for work then and I'd have to take Z ...

Two icons I grew up with died today: Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson. They were both too young to leave us.

If medical bills underly 60% of bankruptcies, then how much of all debt, including outstanding debt that hasn't yet crippled anyone, is due to medical ...

It's in the air: worry. For some of us, it's about our children. This is new territory for me, and one that keeps it coming with ...

My father is visiting. Last night, over dinner, he said: perhaps time isn't continuous. We measure it by recurring events - the sun's rotation, the seasons ...

Baby Z understands the word 'lamp'. In Hungarian, for starters. (What that means? That I've been pointing out lamps to her very diligently of late. ...

All day I kept thinking: in their shoes, I'd fear for my life too. Except there's a difference: I hope I would not have accepted money ...

This blog is kind of repetitive these days. But it's my blog and anyway, that is how life is at the moment. I want some ...

The Oscars this year? Rather satisfying, weren't they? Appropriately cabaret-like: loved Hugh Jackman's hosting. Isn't it more fun when Hollywood mostly does not pretend to ...

(No I am not making that up. And yes there is something very wrong with this particular pairing of different segments of American culture. But ...

My daughter, she is obsessed with me. In her eyes, I can do no wrong, when I come back after being away for a couple ...

"...when brown can stick around, when yellow can be mellow, when the red man can get ahead, man, and when white will do what's right." ...

Happy 2009 to us all! After the darkest week of the year, things got brighter and cheerier. Also colder. Like Eszter, I'm not much given to ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are unbelievable amounts of tschotschkes around our house that A and I have been collecting since our respective childhoods. Or as they're known in ...

I want to record how I feel this morning, after the election. But everything I can think of writing is a bit inadequate. Nevertheless. It is one ...

Faustina laughed out loud for the first time today. I was giving her a bath tonight, trying to imitate what her father does (he's away ...

I got my economic stimulus check, which was - naturally - for an amount far less than the so-called $600 minimum. Because, you know, I ...

I knew I was pregnant just a few days after I conceived. There's no magic to it: there were only two possible occasions when it ...

Not mine, B’s. He got a haircut today and this is what he looks like now: He was quite worn out after it as if getting ...

One unexpected side effect of the flooding in our basement was that our dog nearly killed himself. We learned out that emergency care facilities ...