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Entries from April 2004

Proving the second law of thermodynamics using three small children and a box of ice cream treats

April 27th, 2004 · Comments Off on Proving the second law of thermodynamics using three small children and a box of ice cream treats

Procedure: Incubate children with chocolate ice cream treats on the porch for fifteen minutes at 80 degrees Fahrenheit. Need I write more?

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Tags: motherhood

Something old, something new

April 27th, 2004 · 2 Comments

Last night I discovered something new about my husband. I discovered how much I love his drawings. Sure, I think we’ve played Pictionary in the past and now and then I’ll see a little sketch of his. But what happened tonight was spontaneous and revealing. It was a new discovery for me. After dinner we […]

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Tags: marriage

Restricted access to dangerous posts

April 27th, 2004 · 1 Comment

One idea I heard tossed around at BloggerCon included creating password-protected blogs, or having categories/entries that only specific people would see. Yesterday I realized that I need to keep certain entries on this blog away from certain readers. You never know where someone’s mind is going to go and I saw so clearly how this […]

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Tags: blog

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Mom

April 27th, 2004 · 4 Comments

Okay, okay, the issue’s been raised and as a responsive and responsible blogger it’s time for me to address it…. Steven Noels commented on my pictures of Ted in the sunlight: Nice pictures, Julie, but you’ve reached the point where it would become only fair if some pictures of yourself are also posted somewhere. 🙂 […]

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Blogs as witness

April 26th, 2004 · 2 Comments

I was glad I got to meet Jim Moore at BloggerCon. During the session with John Perry Barlow, I liked what he shared about blogging requiring courage. The other day he wrote a piece on Blogs as witness that I also like. He described witness: Witness is one of the fundamental categories of experience: Witness […]

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