2007 Holiday Greetings

December 24, 2007 – 6:13 pm

I don’t know if I surprised my family or not by sending a spiritually themed card this year. Normally, I send a holiday themed card, and they send religious ones. But I was gently awed by the Daibutsu during my trip to Japan, thought the lessons of the Buddha were appropriate to the season, and [...]

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Elby Cat, 1992-2004

June 2, 2004 – 12:00 am

I’ll miss her sleeping between my feet nearly every night.

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The Trixie Update

May 9, 2004 – 12:00 am

[ via The Badger ] Edward Tufte meets Dr. Spock, obsessively records an infant’s sleeping, eating, and pooping, then writes a weblog.
The sections devoted to measuring sleep; and the production, storage, and consumption of milk are classics.

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40 Years

February 22, 2004 – 12:00 am

Sunday I turned 40. That’ll take some getting used to.
The photo above is from sometime in 1964. That’s Mom, Jeanne Marie, who we miss, on the left. That’s Dad, George W., holding me. He was 41 when that photo was made.
I didn’t find that photo until a couple of years after Mom died. It turned [...]

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Alliterative Wedding Wishes

June 9, 2002 – 12:00 am

Masu and Mizzy: MazelTov!

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Six Years in California

April 13, 2002 – 12:00 am

I arrived in California six years ago today.

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Doctors v. Zealots: The Morning-After Pill Wars

June 21, 2001 – 12:00 am

Where else in the world, except maybe the nations under the yoke of sharia, would hysterical religious cretins and their sycophantic politicians disrupt medical policy?
Yes, America of course.
The latest example of mouth-breathing winning over reason is the case of the Morning-After pill, a high dose of the active ingredients you find in a birth control [...]

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Costs of adoption

February 11, 2000 – 12:00 am

[ via Dan Hartung ] In response to my sneer at rich Christians on the hunt for purebred, Stanford educated ova — Dan writes “Not that adopting is necessarily cheap” and forwards this link on the costs of adoption from the National Adoption Clearing House. Not cheap, but certainly less expensive than in vitro even [...]

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The First Night of Chanukah

December 4, 1999 – 12:00 am

Celebrating the sacred days in a Catholic-Jewish family: “One of us in this mixed marriage is totally and utterly wrong, you know.”

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What to Do When the New Tape from your Favorite Band Breaks

November 18, 1999 – 12:00 am

My Father-In-Law put together a major surprise for my wife’s mom on their 41st wedding anniversary. In fact, it merited the attention of one of Madison’s newspapers. Dave, we should get Gates and Jobs to do this for all developers!

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If it Takes a Whole Village to Raise a Child… Where Is My Village?

November 8, 1999 – 12:00 am

“I love being a mother, but hate being a mother in this society that does not respect mothers or children. I love being a mother but often feel it is impossible to be a half-way good one in a nuclear, urban, individualistic society. The enormity of parenting in this society arises because of our lifestyles, [...]

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Alternatives to Marriage Project [ via Flutterby ]

November 23, 1998 – 12:00 am

A friend was dreading having to campaign against one of those intermitable rightist ballot initiatives to legalize discrimination against non-heterosexuals. One attempting to ban Gay marriages just qualified for the 2000 California ballot. Maybe the answer is to de-privilege marriage?
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The Grandmother Principles

October 31, 1998 – 12:00 am

Suzette Haden Elgin’s (Native Tounge, The Gentle Art of Verbal Self Defense) new book is a guide to grandmothering.
“Grandmother Principle #2: Grandmothers already have tenure.”
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