With two kids in school, and two at home, life feels calmer in the morning hours … more conducive to conversations about life goals. Our four-year-old very seriously posed a conundrum different from others I have faced: “Mommy, when I’m a grownup, do you want me to be a pirate or a hunter?”
Funny, neither of […]
Posted on September 11th, 2007 by Araceli
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I just discovered a new and amazing phenomenon called Freecycle. I tried it today for the first time. The goal of the site is to help our growing landfill problem by playing matchmaker for unwanted yet still useful-to-someone items. This morning I listed about six items. Within hours I had more than 20 responses. People […]
Posted on July 7th, 2006 by Araceli
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Excerpts from a recent Ann Landers piece:
Stay-at-home moms put in long hours
Dear Abby:
I need your help with something. My 16-year-old grandson seems to think that all his mother does is stay at home.
He conveniently “forgets” that she is a housekeeper, gardener, cook, teacher, nurse, driver and mediator.
Could you please print a breakdown of what a […]
Posted on July 7th, 2006 by Araceli
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About three months ago I started publicly charting my blood-sugar levels. Since then I updated two charts daily in order to track a single measure: how well I’m doing at managing my Type-1 diabetes. This got me thinking about how to quantify blood-sugar control in one number instead of two or more.
If you’re diabetes chic […]
Posted on May 25th, 2006 by Nils
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On the way in to work this morning I got stuck in traffic behind a semi truck. It had a good deal of grime on it, and someone had made the following inscription in the grime:
EL PASO
EL CRUNCHO
<—
—> —>
I thought this was a lot funnier than “WASH ME.”
Posted on April 20th, 2006 by Nils
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I love the deep questions kids ask. Maybe it’s just our kids—although that would surprise me—but in our house when it rains theology, it’s a flash-flood. The imponderable questions start with no warning whatsoever and come spilling out one after another, rapid-fire. One hardly gets a chance to attempt an answer before another two or […]
Posted on April 9th, 2006 by Nils
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I while back I plugged TaskToy as a good way to start Getting Things Done. I still think it’s a cool tool, but yesterday I came across something that may replace TaskToy as my web browser’s start page: NextAction.
NextAction, like TaskToy, is free, runs in my web browser and is a way of organizing and […]
Posted on March 28th, 2006 by Nils
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Our six-year-old, having taken piano lessons for some seven months now, considers himself quite the little maestro. He loves the damper pedal. Since he only measures 43 inches tall, he isn’t able to reach it without standing up. (We finally invested in a piano pedal extending platform so his posture won’t go down the tubes). […]
Posted on March 20th, 2006 by Araceli
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The last 3½ weeks have not been the easiest time for Casa Jonsson. During the last weekend of January we were at our kindergartener’s first piano recital when our newborn had what appeared to be some sort of seizure. We spent the next three days in the neonatal ICU ruling out seizures and heart problems […]
Posted on February 21st, 2006 by Nils
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Today is the 250th birthday of Wolfgang Amadé Mozart. In honor of him I offer you this silent, poor-man’s video of me playing a piece by a composer whose work he admired and promoted, namely, J. S. Bach.
That’s not a goatee I’m wearing. I’m picking my nose with a microphone.
This picture was taken at my company’s […]
Posted on January 27th, 2006 by Nils
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