We Beans are powerless to resist the lure of the Blue Angels when they bring their coolness to New England. We’ll be visiting family too and making a long weekend of it, so I’ll turn comments off tonight and see you Tuesday!
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June 21st, 2007 One of the consequences of my blogging has been that people tend to care about my opinion. I get emails asking me everything from what school curriculum we use to what kind of lipstick I wear. So when I recently became an Amazon affiliate and they offered me the option of building an online “store” I decided to do it. I figured it would be a convenient way for me June 20th, 2007 An email I received in response to this post reads in part: I was just wondering if you could explain the reasoning behind your rule about not allowing hate, how you enforce it in practice and if there are other feelings/attitudes that you don’t allow your children to have and how they feel about it. It’s true we do not allow our kids to hate. It’s not a problem really June 20th, 2007 is finding the dog tormenting a small rodent in the field. Well not so small, really. Actually quite a large rodent, comparatively speaking. So large that it makes your oldest daughter exclaim, “If that thing is a mouse, it is the biggest mouse I have ever seen!” But the labels don’t really matter. Mouse or no mouse, this thing is suffering. It is bloodied and bitten. It is laboring to June 20th, 2007 I am beginning work on a new project for mothers. In order to make this project as real and useful as possible, I am hoping to draw upon the real-life experiences of a wide range of real-life mothers. Specifically, I am looking for mothers of all faiths and backgrounds who are willing to receive occasional no-obligation emails from me soliciting their thoughts, experiences, and opinions on various parenting matters. If June 19th, 2007 I am currently reading Born on a Blue Day, subtitled Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant. It is an autobiography by Daniel Tammet, a grown man living with autism. The look he gives you inside his brain and inside his way of thinking is both remarkable and inspiring. My favorite passage, though, comes early on in the book when Tammet writes of his childhood: “Hearing my parents’ recollections |
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