She looks like her father. She looks like me. She looks like herself. I am reluctant to compare my children’s looks to either Ted or me. When others sometimes comment on resemblances, or ask me what I think, I feel uncomfortable. I am sensitive to how the siblings might feel compared or contrasted, or told […]
Entries from March 2004
So who does she look like?
March 8th, 2004 · Comments Off on So who does she look like?
Tags: family
The Impact of New Technology on the News Media
March 8th, 2004 · 1 Comment
Tonight I went to The Impact of New Technology on News Media : A Bainbridge Island Humanities Inquiry Event. It wasn’t what I had imagined it would be, but I still enjoyed the discussion. This was part of a series exploring the media sponsored by the Bainbridge Island Arts and Humanities Council. Co-presented by the […]
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Back when I had no ethics
March 7th, 2004 · Comments Off on Back when I had no ethics
And no grammar either… Tonight while cooking dinner I caught the end of NPR’s All Things Considered program. On Sunday nights New York Times ethicist Randy Cohen shows up to answer a listener’s ethical dilemma. One night I heard a woman ask whether she could take home apples that had fallen and gotten bruised for […]
Tags: news
3 + 1 = 4: the joy of addition
March 7th, 2004 · 2 Comments
this is an updated version of a post I had published earlier and then removed In a recent post I mentioned how reading Tania’s writing about a television movie had disturbed me. What Tania writes, with her intense insight, often excites me, gets me thinking about something, puts pictures in my mind or gives me […]
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looking at you
March 7th, 2004 · 2 Comments
We’re driving for miles tonight on the freeway in the dark. You’re at the wheel. I’m sitting beside you. I’m looking at you. The lights flit across your face catching your profile, the corner of your brow, highlighting your eye, the angle of your face. We’ve got three sleepy kids, slumping in their car seats. […]
Tags: marriage
