but reader, let us not dwell on that fact just now.
instead, as the baron, the husband, and toddler x prepare for an early december trip to new york city, let's read a bit about the city.
...
the baron's favorite part of this article?
“Rats are almost as fecund as germs … a rat at four is older than a man at ninety. ‘Rats that survive to the age of four are the wisest and the most cynical beasts on earth,’ one exterminator says. ‘A trap means nothing to them, no matter how skillfully set. They just kick it around until it snaps; then they eat the bait … I believe some of them can read.’ ”
Showing posts with label read this. Show all posts
Showing posts with label read this. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Friday, August 13, 2010
summertime reading
'you have given me a country', by neela vaswani, was released earlier this month. neela is a friend of the baron's, a good writer, a good woman, just good. also, she's not afraid to speak a thoughtfully placed curse word, so.
the baron has yet to purchase 'you have given me a country', but will soon (it's on her list of things to do this weekend).
read an excerpt here, and a bit about neela here. then maybe add the buying of 'you have given me a country' to your weekend list of things to do as well.
the baron has yet to purchase 'you have given me a country', but will soon (it's on her list of things to do this weekend).
read an excerpt here, and a bit about neela here. then maybe add the buying of 'you have given me a country' to your weekend list of things to do as well.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
five is the right number, or, an open letter from the baron
dear readers (and by "readers", i really mean "mother" and anyone else who thinks that five is not the right number),
i was recently gifted the book "flawed dogs" by the husband. it's the story of sam the lion, a perfectly bred prize dachshund who has had a rather unfortunate life. over the course of the book, he sees the inside of a dog-fighting ring, the inside of an animal testing facility, a dog shelter, and the westminster kennel club dog show. the book's pages, meant for the eyes of teenaged readers, are populated by all sorts of dogs, most of them shelter-bound cast offs.
i read this book in one sitting, in, oh, two hours maybe, crying most of the way. why would the husband give a highly emotional pregnant woman who is already inclined to collect stray dogs a book about a stray dog whose flaw is that he is UNLOVED? why would he do that? i can only conclude that - despite his protestations - he, too, believes five to be the right number.
so. carry on, and i will too.
-the baron
i was recently gifted the book "flawed dogs" by the husband. it's the story of sam the lion, a perfectly bred prize dachshund who has had a rather unfortunate life. over the course of the book, he sees the inside of a dog-fighting ring, the inside of an animal testing facility, a dog shelter, and the westminster kennel club dog show. the book's pages, meant for the eyes of teenaged readers, are populated by all sorts of dogs, most of them shelter-bound cast offs.
i read this book in one sitting, in, oh, two hours maybe, crying most of the way. why would the husband give a highly emotional pregnant woman who is already inclined to collect stray dogs a book about a stray dog whose flaw is that he is UNLOVED? why would he do that? i can only conclude that - despite his protestations - he, too, believes five to be the right number.
so. carry on, and i will too.
-the baron
Monday, October 19, 2009
home schooling, part 2
if you have a moment, check this out, the second installment in a series related to home schooling your children. the baron has read it, and is thinking about it.
Monday, September 28, 2009
home schooling, not just for fundamentalists
the baron read this article this morning, and was surprised to find it very persuasive. the baron hasn't been made a home-schooling convert, but isn't nice to know that there are ways out of the box?
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
paperbackswap
the baron happened upon this website the other day and found it to be a VERY GOOD IDEA. look it over, reader, and see if you can't find something of interest there for yourself...
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
june gloom
reader, you might not know about june gloom (except for you three: carlos, laura and xtina), but it's a very real occurrence in california. in late spring and early summer, the days begin with heavy cloud coverage and maybe a little drizzle, and end with weak sunshine.
the husband, when he was just the boyfriend, wrote a heavily illustrated story for the baron wherein he referred to her as heliotropic. she laughed at his phrasing then, but in the years since (and especially lately, since her part of maryland has had rain and cloudy skies for the better part of 6 weeks) she's come to think it might be true. the cloudiness casts a grey dinge over everything, including the baron. she's lethargic, reader, and can't get out of it.
she can't even muster anything interesting to write for you. so, she's pawning you off on more established and talented writers at:
homeland security today (note that handsome devil on page 46)
the new york times
slate
salon
the husband, when he was just the boyfriend, wrote a heavily illustrated story for the baron wherein he referred to her as heliotropic. she laughed at his phrasing then, but in the years since (and especially lately, since her part of maryland has had rain and cloudy skies for the better part of 6 weeks) she's come to think it might be true. the cloudiness casts a grey dinge over everything, including the baron. she's lethargic, reader, and can't get out of it.
she can't even muster anything interesting to write for you. so, she's pawning you off on more established and talented writers at:
homeland security today (note that handsome devil on page 46)
the new york times
slate
salon
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