2008
Aug
Baking a pie
Cici is becoming a half-decent pastry chef. She can mix up, form, and roll out a pretty good pie...
Aug 17th
Oh, boy
I just found out that Cici’s best friend over the last year-and-a-half (the fabled Mia) is...
Aug 16th
Weird vibe in the city
Six police cars and caution tape blocking off a portion of Georgia Ave. near the Wheaton Metro...
Aug 15th
Heading home
I was hoping to have more to talk about on my trip to The City, but it was pretty uneventful. The...
Aug 13th
Headed off to the big(ger) city
And I’m off for a quick overnight in New York City where I hope to have few adventures and a...
Aug 12th
Trading insults with the child
This is a game we play in the car: “You are a silly….” We both aim for nonsense...
Aug 9th
Butterfly friend
Aug 3rd
The lollipop con
I’m not sure how it happened, but I think I got scammed out of a lollipop this morning —...
Aug 1st
Jul
I looked across the parking lot and thought “why is...
Jul 29th
Me: “What are we building, Cici?: Cici (rearranging...
Jul 27th
Baltimore at sunset
Jul 27th
Not exactly high culture, but a lot of fun. I’m not...
Jul 26th
Aliens on the metro
When you are in the proper frame of mind, watching people on the DC Metro can be endlessly...
Jul 25th
The Firefly Fairy here is actually Cici, taken with my...
Jul 25th
...And I thought I was having a bad day
The day wasn’t actually that bad… but I saw this on my front porch and just had to...
Jul 22nd
No more waiting
…well, unless you count the sync-ing which, for 16 gigs (that I fully intend to fill up),...
Jul 18th
Calculating vacation
Many of my vacations can be actually mapped out into a certain, almost mathematical formula. This is...
Jul 18th
Chocolate pirate face
Jul 17th
iPhone update - the saga continues
So one more day of wasted hours trying to upgrade my phone. Still long lines and understocked...
Jul 13th
Welcome home, she says, with all her heart.
Jul 13th
One of the things I’ll miss about the beach: gas under...
Jul 12th
Disappointment
Well, we got up early to go get me my new phone. Figured who in their right mind would leave the...
Jul 11th
Last party of the week
Jul 11th
Captain Bill's -- Memory vs reality
It was rainy at the beach so we ventured about 40 minutes north to Morehead City today with Cici,...
Jul 10th
Still life of lunch. More pics of Captain Bill’s to...
Jul 9th
Burying the boy. Nothing says summer like burying your...
Jul 7th
The goat farm
I was inexplicably enthralled with this place when I saw it on the Internet. Spend a night at a...
Jul 6th
A reminder. I’ve decided to wear my Kevin Carroll...
Jul 5th
Mommy, stop giggling me!
— Cici, after a tickle attack.
Jul 2nd
Overheard in the office lobby this...
Woman 1:
...and then I finally got the thing and gave it to my husband...
Woman 2:
Which one?
Woman 1:
Bernard. And when he got it....
Jul 1st
Jun
Teraflops
I heard a funny word today: teraflop. It might have just been my mood after a really hard week, but...
Jun 26th
Abstract Scottish Art
— A magnetic sign on the back of...
Jun 25th
My childrens' birthday manifesto
When I started this blog, I swore to myself that I’d really try to not write about my child...
Jun 24th
Reality check
We’re cutting apart scrap paper on the floor to pass the afternoon I decide to get fancy and...
Jun 22nd
This just made me mad
I had a conversation with my daughter a couple of days ago as we were commuting home. Cici: My...
Jun 20th
What I'm grooving to on my iPod today
“You’ve Got To Move” by Cassandra Wilson. * sigh * It’s just that kind of...
Jun 19th
Rainbow over Washington, DC. Mike (who, naturally, found a...
Jun 19th
If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind, of what, then,...
— Albert Einstein
Jun 17th
Water main break at home means splurging a bit on dinner...
Jun 16th
The kindness of a stranger
I wake up this morning to the child’s face in mine. “What are we going to do today,...
Jun 15th
"I buried the babies"
Bathtime is more and more often becoming storytime. Tonight, the following statement — very...
Jun 14th
Happy Fathers Day!
Jun 14th
I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness...
— Hafiz
Jun 10th
iPhone Greensleeves
Alas, my love… you do me wrong,to tease me so discourteously.For I have loved you well and...
Jun 9th
"A member of your family"
We woke up sweaty this morning which means, of course, there was something wrong with the air...
Jun 7th
It's Friday!
‘nuff said.
Jun 6th
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak...
— Abraham Lincoln
Jun 5th
I wonder where that quote came from
My mother-in-law speaks English as a second language. She often will write down words or phrases...
Jun 3rd
May
Somebody needs a haircut. Found art outside of Wheaton...
May 30th
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained...
— Robert J. Hanlon
May 29th
I really hope this stays in Vegas
I went through Las Vegas on my way back from California. I never left the airport and was only there...
May 29th
Engineering love
I just got out of a session about how to make people talk to each other more on web sites. I sat at...
May 28th
Blogging “Old School” style. I’m...
May 28th
A moment of being just a little bit...
After all of that deep thinking, I had stand up and walk outside for just a second. I ran across the...
May 27th
Redefining democracy
I’m at a conference right now about technology “mashups” around social good....
May 27th
At the NetSquared conference in San Jose, CA
May 27th
Just beautiful
I’m sure the severe thunderstorms were less than beautiful below these clouds, but from above,...
May 27th
Thwock
The dog got me up at 7am this morning for her walk. I’m going to be out of town for a few days...
May 25th
I never thought I'd see the day...
…When I actually heard myself say: “Tissue, child. Use a tissue to wipe up your runny...
May 24th
Get A Grip Tutoring
— Sign spotted hanging off the...
May 24th
Urban Cowgirl on a rocking horse-thing ride in front of the...
May 24th
Kogod amazement
My office closed a little early today for the impending holiday so I picked up Cici and so we took a...
May 24th
I am fairly certain that given a cape and a nice tiara, I...
— Off a magnet I bought in Mud...
May 21st
Is it me?
I’m walking out to get some lunch. A nicely dressed woman walking down Connecticut Ave (big...
May 20th
Random thought
If writing about your child is “mommy blogging”, would this (www.thebathroomdiaries.com)...
May 19th
The hardest thing about time travel is the grammar.
— Unknown
May 19th
Break in the Metro time/space continuum
So I’m sitting on the Metro train after dropping off the child at school and heading back...
May 19th
A taste of Wheaton - wet
I always kind of look forward to a Taste of Wheaton (a one-day, outdoor food festival). It reminds...
May 19th
I want to be an outrageous old woman who never gets called...
— I don’t know the source....
May 17th
A perfect weather day -- Let's go to the...
Yeah. I know. What was I thinking? Well, it was actually a nice ride down there and I caught up with...
May 17th
The source of my chair dancing today
“Staple It Together” by Jack Johnson. I love the lyrics of this song “…He...
May 16th
Strange — but happy — creature on the streets of...
May 16th
Please. Just shoot me now.
— Me, watching the My Little...
May 16th
I hab a coldb. *Blech* I totally blame the child....
May 16th
Can you say “overreaction”? The school called...
May 14th
What spent the night on my front porch? It’s a perfect...
May 13th
Video shoot for epilepsy
Cici and I went to Baltimore today to be interviewed for a promotional video for the Epilepsy...
May 13th
The album I'm grooving on today
Chris Rea, Blue Street (Five Guitars). I seriously need to buy some more of this guy’s stuff....
May 12th
Conversation at my house
Sounds from the other room: Video game noises. Mike: I was trying to get her interested in...
May 10th
A brilliant use for an old wok
Of course, I wouldn’t have thought this was brilliant when I was living in the city and...
May 10th
"I will have bad dreams about...
Cici and I just finished watching “Lord of the Beans” - her first Veggie Tales...
May 10th
Taking "minimalist web site design" a...
I just stumbled on this here at work. I wouldn’t have guessed it of the federal government...
May 8th
The fetish of social entrepreneurship
I have to admit that the term “fetish” connecting with “social...
May 8th
Followup to the 3 second post
This afternoon, I hit 2 elevators, 2 traffic lights, and a metro train exactly right. I figure I...
May 7th
The reason I walked to the office a bit...
I didn’t want to turn off “Celebrate” by Wyclef Jean, featuring Pattie LaBelle.
May 7th
Music making me do the head bopping...
“Riding With The King” — duet between BB King and Eric Clapton
May 6th
3 seconds late
All day, I’ve been missing things by about 3 seconds: elevators, “walk” lights on...
May 5th
Ok. So there are non PEPCO lines on PEPCO poles often enough...
May 4th
A world in a bottle
I’m on kind of a bottle kick, aren’t I? There’s a park outside my window at work....
May 2nd
Exhuberance out of a bottle
At work today, I had people complementing me on how I looked “good” and...
May 2nd
The song that's making me dance around...
“In These Shoes” by Kristy MacColl.
May 1st
Apr
Don’t let women chortle over your little soldier of...
— “soldier of love”...
Apr 29th
A moment to pause
We’re driving into work, the child is asleep in the back seat, and I hear a weird soft...
Apr 28th
My daughter used hand and dish soap to create a sinkfull of...
Apr 27th
Another gem from the child
(to the tune of Bingo) Old Macdonald had a farm And Nemo was his name-o, B- i-n-g-o, b-I-n-g-o And...
Apr 26th
What a beautiful day. I had a long list of things I needed...
Apr 26th
Preschool Insults
I was trading silly insults with my 4-year-old when she hit on this gem: Hoonah Hannah Silly Banana...
Apr 25th
Is it just me or is this really funny?
Apr 23rd
I just got peed on
That really sort of puts a nasty twist on the rest of the day.
Apr 23rd
Ahhh spring
Apr 17th
Did you ever have that feeling?
For the past five days, in my 45-minute commute from suburbs to city, I have passed bad accidents....
Apr 16th
DC Metro: Some days it feels like emerging out of a demon...
Apr 2nd
Mar
Here’s the larger context of the giant cherry blossoms...
Mar 29th
Giant cherry blossoms
Mar 29th
All the help I need
Mar 26th
Spotted on Metro
A short, stout man with a three-inch Afro should never be seen carrying a prissy little bag that...
Mar 26th
The Quiet One
I’ve heard that all my life… “oh, yes. Her. She’s the quiet one.” It...
Mar 24th