by Julie | Oct 30, 2008
Last week I asked one of the neighborhood posse what he was going to be for Halloween. “A knight,” he said. “Oh, that sounds good!” I said. “Or maybe a gunman,” he said. I told him: “I vote for knight.” Gunman! I mean,...
by Julie | Oct 28, 2008
Yesterday we took a stroller walk after school down to city hall to drop off Dave’s absentee ballot. The boys were chilly on the way back, and when I went in the stroller trunk (is that what it’s called? the understroller?) to get the blanket I’d...
by Julie | Oct 25, 2008
Eli thinks the singular of earwax is “earwack.” As in, “What’s this? Oh, it’s a piece of earwack.”
by Julie | Oct 23, 2008
I just dropped off my absentee ballot at City Hall. It feels kind of strange to have the voting done with. I’m usually such a voting geek and love to go into the little booth, but they’re predicting all kinds of lines this year, and, Civics Be Damned, my...
by Julie | Oct 22, 2008
Eli has randomly become obsessed with “Horse with No Name” by America. (The boys somehow changed the bedside radio to a classic rock station and Eli heard “Horse with No Name” and was riveted.) Despite the fact that it’s not one of my...
by Julie | Oct 10, 2008
Julie: What are you doing? Why are you licking that apple? Henry: I’m licking off all the pesticides. Julie: Ohhhhh, no, honey, that’s not how it works.
