The Ride Home: An Ongoing Update

I spend a lot of time on this blog writing about the trials and travails of getting Sasha home from preschool every evening. On the whole, it’s not the worst commute: a three-block walk, three stops on the F train, and three more blocks to our apartment. Some people, I’m sure, have it much worse, …

Angry Birds to Rip Your Child’s Eyes Out!

My phone is dumb and the only pad I have around the house presently is of the steno variety. I offer this not as evidence of any sort of anti-techno bias necessarily, but mostly in the context of these things being awfully expensive. Can someone please explain to me why all my broke friends who …

The Great OLSAT Pigment Test

The search for a public kindergarten for Dalia seems to be in a lull:  we’ve applied to all the schools in our neighborhood, including our zoned school (which maintains a waitlist each year because of too much demand), all the dual-language programs we can find, and even to PS333, which apparently will allow us the …