With two children, I can lounge on the couch reading while my husband plays with the baby, as long as I can do it while an almost-three-year-old pokes me in the eyeballs and tries to “flush mama’s head” with a hairbrush and sings “The Three Little Kittens” at the top of ...
On our blog item “A Few More TTC Scenes” (check it out), you can see several photos that I took of vintage TTC work cars, including of S-41 — a twin to S- My caption reads: “TTC snow sweeper S-41 at the car barns at Queen and Roncesvalles on February 9, 1969. Twelve suc...
She wrangles and invitation to the Islamic Women's Games, where a father is allowed to see his daughter run in competition for the first time, thanks to "the world's first track suit-hijab". She learns to belly dance in Egypt, and in protest of fundamentalist calls for a ban on this...
a young woman who likes to sit on summer nights in the somber beer houses which line the Hoboken waterfront and talk to the reminiscent sailors, said she wrote the casual verses in her book, I Feel Better Now, while riding to work on a Fifth Avenue bus and while eating lunch in a res...
–Fire In The Belly: On Being A Man by Sam Keen –The Way Of Men by Jack Donavan –Iron John by Robert Bly –No More Mr. Nice Guy by Dr. Robert Glover –The Way Of The Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire by David Deida...
What I’ve been knitting (and want to knit) isn’t working, but by golly, there must be something that I can knit on. Something that is only in the round, almost all knit stitches, and easy to pick up and put down again without losing my place. Behold: Scrunch Socks!! These ...
Pets.com was spending based on growth it hoped to see, not on where the company was currently at, and it ended up losing an estimated $300 million in investment capital along the way. … There is never enough for the hungry ghost, so it’s always looking for more. In business, the...
Dany is losing herself, which is reflected in her inability to control her dragons (who she subsequently locks up). She finds ruling to be boring and has little patience for her subjects: ‘You would think they might be happier, Dany thought. They have what they came for. Is there no ...
She had an empire when she closed her eyes and made semi-peace with the time she was losing in the gap between vision and execution. Every second, every minute, every hour, getting closer to where the exact nature of her death would be delivered up to her on a silver platter. She ...
When it began, neither my first-grade teacher or I knew where the stories were going — I still don’t know half the time, when I start a new one — but I felt an even more intense rush than losing myself in others’ written adventures. It was so much more fun to orchestrate stor...