2008

Baking a pie

Cici is becoming a half-decent pastry chef. She can mix up, form, and roll out a pretty good pie...

Oh, boy

I just found out that Cici’s best friend over the last year-and-a-half (the fabled Mia) is...

Weird vibe in the city

Six police cars and caution tape blocking off a portion of Georgia Ave. near the Wheaton Metro...

Heading home

I was hoping to have more to talk about on my trip to The City, but it was pretty uneventful. The...

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...

Trading insults with the child

This is a game we play in the car: “You are a silly….” We both aim for nonsense...

Butterfly friend

The lollipop con

I’m not sure how it happened, but I think I got scammed out of a lollipop this morning —...

I looked across the parking lot and thought “why is...

Me: “What are we building, Cici?: Cici (rearranging...

Baltimore at sunset

Not exactly high culture, but a lot of fun. I’m not...

Aliens on the metro

When you are in the proper frame of mind, watching people on the DC Metro can be endlessly...

The Firefly Fairy here is actually Cici, taken with my...

...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...

No more waiting

…well, unless you count the sync-ing which, for 16 gigs (that I fully intend to fill up),...

Calculating vacation

Many of my vacations can be actually mapped out into a certain, almost mathematical formula. This is...

Chocolate pirate face

iPhone update - the saga continues

So one more day of wasted hours trying to upgrade my phone. Still long lines and understocked...

Welcome home, she says, with all her heart.

One of the things I’ll miss about the beach: gas under...

Disappointment

Well, we got up early to go get me my new phone. Figured who in their right mind would leave the...

Last party of the week

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,...

Still life of lunch. More pics of Captain Bill’s to...

Burying the boy. Nothing says summer like burying your...

The goat farm

I was inexplicably enthralled with this place when I saw it on the Internet. Spend a night at a...

A reminder. I’ve decided to wear my Kevin Carroll...

“Mommy, stop giggling me!”
— Cici, after a tickle attack.

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....

Teraflops

I heard a funny word today: teraflop. It might have just been my mood after a really hard week, but...

“Abstract Scottish Art”
— A magnetic sign on the back of...

My childrens' birthday manifesto

When I started this blog, I swore to myself that I’d really try to not write about my child...

Reality check

We’re cutting apart scrap paper on the floor to pass the afternoon I decide to get fancy and...

This just made me mad

I had a conversation with my daughter a couple of days ago as we were commuting home. Cici: My...

What I'm grooving to on my iPod today

“You’ve Got To Move” by Cassandra Wilson. * sigh * It’s just that kind of...

Rainbow over Washington, DC. Mike (who, naturally, found a...

“If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind, of what, then,...”
— Albert Einstein

Water main break at home means splurging a bit on dinner...

The kindness of a stranger

I wake up this morning to the child’s face in mine. “What are we going to do today,...

"I buried the babies"

Bathtime is more and more often becoming storytime. Tonight, the following statement — very...

Happy Fathers Day!

“I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness...”
— Hafiz

iPhone Greensleeves

Alas, my love… you do me wrong,to tease me so discourteously.For I have loved you well and...

"A member of your family"

We woke up sweaty this morning which means, of course, there was something wrong with the air...

It's Friday!

‘nuff said.

“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak...”
— Abraham Lincoln

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...

Somebody needs a haircut. Found art outside of Wheaton...

“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained...”
— Robert J. Hanlon

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...

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...

Blogging “Old School” style. I’m...

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...

Redefining democracy

I’m at a conference right now about technology “mashups” around social good....

At the NetSquared conference in San Jose, CA

Just beautiful

I’m sure the severe thunderstorms were less than beautiful below these clouds, but from above,...

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...

I never thought I'd see the day...

…When I actually heard myself say: “Tissue, child. Use a tissue to wipe up your runny...

“Get A Grip Tutoring”
— Sign spotted hanging off the...

Urban Cowgirl on a rocking horse-thing ride in front of the...

Kogod amazement

My office closed a little early today for the impending holiday so I picked up Cici and so we took a...

“I am fairly certain that given a cape and a nice tiara, I...”
— Off a magnet I bought in Mud...

Is it me?

I’m walking out to get some lunch. A nicely dressed woman walking down Connecticut Ave (big...

Random thought

If writing about your child is “mommy blogging”, would this (www.thebathroomdiaries.com)...

“The hardest thing about time travel is the grammar.”
— Unknown

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...

A taste of Wheaton - wet

I always kind of look forward to a Taste of Wheaton (a one-day, outdoor food festival). It reminds...

“I want to be an outrageous old woman who never gets called...”
— I don’t know the source....

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...

The source of my chair dancing today

“Staple It Together” by Jack Johnson. I love the lyrics of this song “…He...

Strange — but happy — creature on the streets of...

“Please. Just shoot me now.”
— Me, watching the My Little...

I hab a coldb. *Blech* I totally blame the child....

Can you say “overreaction”? The school called...

What spent the night on my front porch? It’s a perfect...

Video shoot for epilepsy

Cici and I went to Baltimore today to be interviewed for a promotional video for the Epilepsy...

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....

Conversation at my house

Sounds from the other room: Video game noises. Mike: I was trying to get her interested in...

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...

"I will have bad dreams about...

Cici and I just finished watching “Lord of the Beans” - her first Veggie Tales...

Taking "minimalist web site design" a...

I just stumbled on this here at work. I wouldn’t have guessed it of the federal government...

The fetish of social entrepreneurship

I have to admit that the term “fetish” connecting with “social...

Followup to the 3 second post

This afternoon, I hit 2 elevators, 2 traffic lights, and a metro train exactly right. I figure I...

The reason I walked to the office a bit...

I didn’t want to turn off “Celebrate” by Wyclef Jean, featuring Pattie LaBelle.

Music making me do the head bopping...

“Riding With The King” — duet between BB King and Eric Clapton

3 seconds late

All day, I’ve been missing things by about 3 seconds: elevators, “walk” lights on...

Ok. So there are non PEPCO lines on PEPCO poles often enough...

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....

Exhuberance out of a bottle

At work today, I had people complementing me on how I looked “good” and...

The song that's making me dance around...

“In These Shoes” by Kristy MacColl.

“Don’t let women chortle over your little soldier of...”
— “soldier of love”...

A moment to pause

We’re driving into work, the child is asleep in the back seat, and I hear a weird soft...

My daughter used hand and dish soap to create a sinkfull of...

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...

What a beautiful day. I had a long list of things I needed...

Preschool Insults

I was trading silly insults with my 4-year-old when she hit on this gem: Hoonah Hannah Silly Banana...

Is it just me or is this really funny?

I just got peed on

That really sort of puts a nasty twist on the rest of the day.

Ahhh spring

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....

DC Metro: Some days it feels like emerging out of a demon...

Here’s the larger context of the giant cherry blossoms...

Giant cherry blossoms

All the help I need

Spotted on Metro

A short, stout man with a three-inch Afro should never be seen carrying a prissy little bag that...

The Quiet One

I’ve heard that all my life… “oh, yes. Her. She’s the quiet one.” It...