Some mornings I go into the girls room and wake them up from sound sleep. Other mornings they wake up early on their own. When I come see how they are, they are smiling and playing with each other quietly. “It’s Sister Time,” Abigail informed me. One morning last week, when I went into the […]
Entries from November 2004
Sister Time
November 24th, 2004 · 3 Comments
Tags: family
Maybe I’m Chinese too
November 24th, 2004 · 2 Comments
Strange things can happen to you while you blog. You might even change your mind. Months ago I described my vegetarian desires that I had given up for love. Whenever Ted travelled, I would make meatless dishes and imagine what life could be like without butcher bills. I wasn’t that excited about my marriage compromise […]
Tags: food
Catching up with the kids and their conversations
November 23rd, 2004 · 4 Comments
Elisabeth’s vocabulary is expanding. She learned to say “BloggerCon” and “Burger King” this month. The other day she said her first sentence, although slowly: “Tigger eat snack”. We can even do a little interview with her: Me: What’s your name? Elisabeth: Eebedeepee Me: How old are you? Elisabeth: Two. Me: What do you like to […]
Tags: family
Is it surveillance or is it an escape route?
November 23rd, 2004 · 3 Comments
On Saturday I heard This American Life’s program Spies Like Us including one story of a mom who used her baby monitor to hear cell phone conversations of her neighbors. Secrets for the taking from the everyday world of surveillance, to quote phrases from the show’s description. At BloggerCon, I immediately noticed how easy it […]
Tags: news
“Humanize the relationship”
November 23rd, 2004 · No Comments
The other night I caught a snippet of Burundi Journalist Honored for Ethnic Radio Project an interview on NPR with Alexis Sinduhije who will receive an International Press Freedom Award this week from the Committee to Protect Journalists. Sinduhije is the founder of Radio Publique Africaine, a radio station that has brought together Hutu and […]
Tags: news
