Another one of the unexpected pleasures of living in IC as opposed to CR is that IC is set up for cycling. Not only are there designated bicycle paths, but riding your bike on the nicely-maintained roads is no big deal. Most drivers are used to encountering people on bikes, too. CR is too bumpy [...]
Archive for July, 2008
Wheeeeeeeeeeeels!
Posted in Fitness, Planet Sster on July 28, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Playground Invasion, cont.
Posted in Race on July 6, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Cloudscome’s question to my original post is a good one, and one that I meant to address initially but forgot. I don’t think it’s only White Middle Class entitlement that compels people to ask about a family’s racial/ethnic background or to inquire about how various members are related to one another. There’s straight-up [...]
Playground Invasion
Posted in Race on July 4, 2008 | 6 Comments »
One of the things I like best about our new neighborhood is the opportunity it affords me and my son to interact with lots of people who don’t look like us or share all parts of our racial and cultural background. Most evenings we visit our lovely playground the Snapper is either the only [...]
Heh, heh.
Posted in All Wet, Dazed and Confused; or, Living Well with ADD, Planet Sster on July 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Sster wrote on March 12, 2008:
Can I please just rip the contents of my house out like a tablecloth after a feast? I do not have time to clean it and there is no one else to do it. Most days I can either be a good parent (outings! attention! games! singing! art!) or have [...]
Everything is as it should be
Posted in All Wet, I'm not supposed to blog about my family, Planet Sster on July 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Old normal.
In our little family today, all five of us are doing what we were made to do: I am dissertating, Attic Man is lawyering, the Snapper is at day care playing with other kids (which he loves; we have a tantrum for every leave-taking), and the dogs are sacked out in the living room [...]
