This morning I read Hostage crisis continues for anguished Russian town and I ached for mother Zalina Dzandarova: BESLAN, Russia — Zalina Dzandarova cradles her son Alan as he sleeps with his small face buried against her stomach. He is the child that Dzandarova was able to save, the child she chose to save, really. […]
Entries from September 2004
No parent wants to make that choice
September 4th, 2004 · 1 Comment
Tags: news
Learning in complete cycles
September 4th, 2004 · 2 Comments
The other day the girls and I stopped by the Burke Museum at the University of Washington. While walking through the lower floor’s exhibits on Pacific Rim cultures, I saw this quote describing how the Maori learn: …Maori learn in complete cycles. When they learn the word for caterpillar, they are taken outside to the […]
Tags: homeschool
Driving to meet the neighbors
September 4th, 2004 · 1 Comment
The other day we received an invitation from Chrysler to join their “neighborhood” by showing up at Six Flags in Illinois to hang out with others who own Chrysler cars. Do I have more in common with someone who owns the same car than I do with someone on my block? Does the car make […]
Tags: culture
An august apology
September 4th, 2004 · 2 Comments
Or rather my apology for August, what there was, or wasn’t. It was the kind of month where I could have frequented a crying bar. It was intense. It was tiring. It affected my blogging. I went postless, like Katherine. Somehow my statistics say that an-almost record number of people still stopped by this blog […]
Tags: blog
Cotton candy summer
September 4th, 2004 · 2 Comments
At the county Fair last week I bought the girls cotton candy from a cart where sno cone syrups waited in rows beside the bags of blue and pink. Cotton candy is a commodity. At $2.50 an ounce, a pound would sell for $40, and probably all profit, since the ingredients are sugar and food […]
Tags: food
