A few days ago I wrote a piece exploring the lines and limits of peer pressure and parental responsibility in society. I received insightful comments and I especially wanted to respond in another post to the thoughtful ones left by Philippe Boucher (who now has a Voice of Bainbridge blog! yippee!) and Paul Beard about […]
Entries from September 2004
If it takes a village, how do you get what it takes?
September 30th, 2004 · 2 Comments
Tags: family
Favorite fall photo so far
September 30th, 2004 · 3 Comments
Michaela, Elisabeth and I went to the post office yesterday. As we were leaving I saw maple leaves on the ground in the afternoon light and I was glad I had my camera handy.
Tags: island
Lies My Teacher Told Me
September 29th, 2004 · 6 Comments
Lies My Teacher Told Me is for anyone who has ever fallen asleep in history class. Or so it says on the back of the book by James W. Loewen. I don’t fit into this category. I don’t remember ever falling sleep in history class. But I wasn’t that excited by it. I took history […]
Tags: books
Doing the books: quick reviews
September 29th, 2004 · Comments Off on Doing the books: quick reviews
Actually I should be paying the bills tonight…so I should go do that, but for a moment, here are some quick book reviews from the past month… Little Black Book of Stories by A.S. Byatt and Sweet Land Stories by E.L. Doctorow I read both of these on our San Francisco trip – on the […]
Tags: books
The land of the dead
September 29th, 2004 · 1 Comment
Earlier this week, the girls and I read Tut’s Mummy by Judy Donnelly, a story of Tutankhamen’s funeral and Howard Carter’s 1922 discovery of the tomb. Abigail and Michaela seemed to like it and asked me to read it again and again. I was a bit perplexed by their fascination, but then I remembered how […]
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