A family in Italy named their son Friday. He was baptised Friday and spent his first five months as a Friday. Then the courts got involved. They decided that Friday was not an acceptable name “because it recalled the servile savage in Daniel Defoe’s novel Robinson Crusoe and because superstitious Italians consider Friday an unlucky [...]
We have our first confirmed sighting of a felt Christmas tree in the wild. This one happens to have sprouted up at my niece and nephews house.
I received an email complete with a picture.
While we shan’t forego our regular Christmas Tree…ever…we did enjoy doing the felt tree. We put it on a door [...]
Lead is in all toys. That seems to be the basic warning for this holiday season. Stock up on books and clothes…at least until they start testing the lead content in those, too. The most recent recall I heard about was for a Fisher-Price toy that for some reason was only recalled [...]
If there is anything I’ve learned over the last 7 years, it’s when Bush says he’s against something then I am all for it.
Yesterday, Bush vetoed pumping more money into a “federally funded, state-run health insurance program for poor children.”
I know nothing about the details of this bill nor do I have any opinions on [...]
One of the biggest concerns that Pookie’s teachers have is his lack of interest in playing with his classmates. They spend a lot of time in class working on developing that interest. We spend a lot of time working on it here at home and we’ve been seeing some cool moments where it did click.
The [...]
