The combination of red twig dogwood and sword fern caught my eye outside the island’s Bay Hay and Feed last week. The red and green to me looked like natural Northwest holiday decor, a bit of Christmas cheer to brighten a rainy gray December day.
Entries from December 2004
Natural Northwest holiday decor
December 13th, 2004 · No Comments
Tags: gardening
Not only natalists
December 13th, 2004 · 5 Comments
David Brooks essay in the New York Times earlier this week The New Red Diaper Babies [ found via Instapundit] pushed a few buttons with me. I don’t like labels and I don’t think we Leungs are necessarily natalists. We only have three children, not an entire basketball team. I don’t think I am as […]
Tags: news
Sex and housework or why I read economics blogs
December 13th, 2004 · 4 Comments
My original title for this post was going to be : My life must be miserable. Last week I read a study published in the New York Times [via Brian Chin’s Buzzworthy blog] titled What Makes People Happy? TV, Study Says. A team of psychologists and economists is reporting today what many Americans know but […]
Tags: news
Purple overall purse
December 13th, 2004 · 1 Comment
A few weeks ago, a beloved (and well-worn) pair of purple overalls lost a strap in the wash. When I opened the dryer, the strap fell onto the floor, detached. I guess it got twisted in some clothes and the seam tore. I figured it would be impractical to try to repair the overalls, so […]
Tags: homeschool
Seeking…and finding….
December 13th, 2004 · 1 Comment
Snippy described her search for friends …. I have plenty of imaginary friends… […] … that is, people I only know online, whether through Livejournal or Usenet or various web communities. What I want is a few more people colocated within a hour’s drive, people I could go to the movies with, or have over […]
Tags: friends
