By staying in the city, am I raising a kid who will miss the restorative effects of nature?
Posted on June 29th, 2005 by Laura Norman
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San Francisco Mom: The Great Outdoors
La Mama: Down With Reading!
Apparently, among the many other miracles attributed to breastfeeding, we can now enumerate “freedom from nerdy glasses in the 6th grade.”
Speaking as someone who had some very uncool, aviator gold trimmed glasses at age 11, this is no small thing. (Adam Silver wouldn’t kiss me when I was sporting the Top Gun […]
Posted on June 29th, 2005 by Allison
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Supersized: Baby #3
This was just so crazy I had to post. My twins combined weight was a whopping 7.13 pounds. Now I know that’s still little and they were six weeks early but this “big enchilada” was three weeks early. Crazy…
Posted on June 29th, 2005 by Sam
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PBS Follow Up
A friend of mine was reading the blog recently and saw my post about the NPR/PBS funding issue. Being the activist she is, she’d already written our congressman about the issue and was excited to see we were also spreading the word on PlayIsTheWork. I thought it would be interesting to share the response she […]
Posted on June 29th, 2005 by Sam
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Is 40 the new 30?
My whole life people have told me I looked young. When I was well past 21 I compulsively forgot my license and was always sent home from the bar. As I approached my late 30’s there were less and less comments about my “youthful” look although they still came and I did occasionally still get […]
Posted on June 28th, 2005 by Sam
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Big Bird and NPR, you rock!
House restores $100 million to public broadcasting: Former GOP official named CPB president. Isn’t it awesome to see that activism does have its place? The article in CNN reports that lawmakers were flooded with letters and phone calls of support. This is an important step and one that I wholly support. Go Big Bird!
Posted on June 23rd, 2005 by Sam
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