In Which LOST Makes My Little.Brain Hurt.

Boy, howdy, I loves me some Lost.
But my little brain can only soak up so much of it in an hour — I miss a lot of the little details and some of the philosophy/sci-fi references go right over my head.
That’s why I find J.Wood’s blog at Powell’s Books as important a part of the [...]

Things I Never Thought I’d Say

With a new blog comes a new category of posts: Things I Never Thought I’d Say as a parent. Every parent has these, and there are the obvious Things:

Because I Said So
Go Ask Your Mother
I’ll Give You Something To Cry About
Just Wait Until We Get Home

These are not those Things. These are unique Things, like [...]

In Which Jesse Jackson Saved My Life.

Inspired by a poll over at This or That, I hereby recount the story of how Jesse Jackson saved my life:
In 1987, my parents, my sister, my aunt, my cousin and I all piled into our station wagon and left Olympia, Washington, for a journey around the United States.
At that point, I had been to [...]