Hey, look at that! Matt and Nathan have recently made appearances in other media. Here’s Mr. Thornburgh quoted in Daily Finance on his decision not to have a third kid: “Right around the time you start considering a third kid is when you start paying full-fare airfare on the kids you already have, along with …
Monthly Archives: August 2011
An Easy-Peasy Survey
When I was growing up, nothing was easy. Not to say that things were difficult—in fact, the opposite. But “easy” was never enough. Things were easy-peasy, or easy-peasy Japanesy. Sometimes, they were even easy-peasy lemon-squeezy. And that, I thought, was that. But the other day, I came across a new variant: easy-peasy mac-and-cheesy. Whoah! So …
The Germans Are Coming! (German Cockroaches, That Is)
I’ve heard it many times, particularly among our friends who have come from California to live in the Northeast: ah, the seasons. After a lifetime in a place where snow doesn’t fall and the leaves don’t change, seasons can be a lyric little reminder that the year is a cycle, yadda yadda. In our little …
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Dubious Milestones no. 723: Sasha’s First Death
Meta Mulcahy is dead. Now, to most people, this probably doesn’t mean much, unless you’re a fan of Catholics for Choice, the abortion-rights organization I believe she helped found in 1973, but to me she was simply my neighbor. I’d often see her on my block, usually with her little dog, and if Sasha was …
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