My wife and I stayed home from work sick this week, she on Tuesday, I on Wednesday. We have picked up slightly dissimilar colds, both fugal variations on your average winter bug. (Hers comes with fatigue and congestion, mine with a cough and nausea. Fun.) Meanwhile, our son is perfectly well, apart from a very …
Monthly Archives: March 2010
Angels and Aliens
This week we are in Los Angeles, and once again I am torn between wondering why we don’t live here and how we would ever survive. For a weird start to any stay in LA, try walking somewhere. I trekked two miles down Overland looking for coffee and wifi, and didn’t see another human being …
No, Texas, Don’t Mess With MY KID.
It’s generally held that Texas has more control over America’s curriculum than all the other states put together. Why? Because Texas (a) is a big market, and (b) has a stringent Board of Education that reviews every textbook used in the state. If you, Mr. Publisher, want to sell a lot of books, you have …
What Almost-Almost Made Me Cry Today
Once again, I find myself at 35,000 feet, tear ducts wide open and ready to drain me of any last drops of moisture in my body. Today’s in-flight movie: The Blind Side, in which Oscar™ winner Sandra Bullock adopts a quasi-homeless black friend of her young son. Will I almost-cry today? Probably not—I don’t even …