Last week, though it feels like a year ago, I spoke at a conference to mothers and their daughters about modesty. It was a surprise topic for me. In coming up with what I would say, I had a lot of assorted thoughts that did not end up making it into the talk. Here’s one set. It’s my list of… Read more →
Time for more pictures of things I’ve made. Somehow, it made sense to me to take my precious quiet after the kids have gone to bed time to make Esther an Easter dress. It was very simple, so that helped. This first picture is how the dress looked nicely laid out on the table. The shoulder straps were tie-ons to… Read more →
I do not know how I manage to craft while not managing to blog about it. It must be that crafting puts me at my limit and blogging runs over. At any rate, I wanted to post a blanket I started for Esther back in November. This was before the gift avalanche, when I had nearly no girl things and… Read more →
I have not been allowed to post pictures of my duvet cover in various states of undone as an inducement to finish it. It has, after all, taken nearly two years to complete. I started it sometime in between marriage and Ransom, which was also sometime in between three moves and nearly two babies, which hopefully explain my lame, lame… Read more →
There’s a dichotomy between the public policy I’m likely to advocate and what I know to be a real education: Generally, I think it a good idea for schools to begin incorporating online instruction, particularly for classes they can’t offer like AP courses or Ancient Greek, and even support full-time virtual schooling for those students that may do better with… Read more →
The web is alive with news that Apple’s iPhone and Google Android smartphones regularly send unencrypted information about users’ locations back to Google and Apple. This means that, for years, these companies have been logging where we are, and when, and not telling us about it. It took a stumble-upon by researchers playing with stored cellphone data to discover the… Read more →
Waaay back (ok, not really way back) in Philosophy 101, Dr. Turner introduced us to the concept of the “Perpetual Pleasure Machine.” The conundrum goes like this: Suppose there were invented a perpetual pleasure machine, such that once you plugged into it, you felt wonderful. Blissful. Perfectly happy. But this machine is not, of course, reality; so therein lies the… Read more →
Katie referred me to this WSJ blog I’ve started reading, and it posted today concerning women in the workplace—we are apparently still not rising to the top of business and political leadership.Interesting how merely stating that fact (though a contestable fact depending on your metric) is supposed to generate automatic consternation. I am about to argue that it should not…. Read more →
I’m on this awesome email list called Freecycle, where people trade and give away rather than throw away their old stuff. You post what you have, people reply, you pick one, and the happy new owner comes to take it away. Looks like No. 2 got something very special for Christmas this year.
I have a soft spot for small business owners, as my dad is one. It’s a risky life, but there’s also some romance: a single man or woman with an idea, a passion to do one thing, willing to work 80 hours a week, invest their life’s savings, stay up late, hustle, earnestly strive to make a living by meeting… Read more →
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