In the morning, as I co-supervised the "Changing Dynasties" game (sort of an elaborate version of tag), I got my up-close-and-personal view of the CAC kids in the third, fourth and fifth grades. Fascinating. My conclusion is that we should feel sorry for children to the extent that we feel sorry for adults who have […]
Didn’t see it, because I didn’t happen to be sleepless at three a.m.
Picking and choosing among post-debate analyses, I like the quote adapted from Mark Twain. Namely, Senator Obama apparently had the confidence of “a Christian with four aces.”
And, speaking of Twain, the book of aphorisms that Peter gave the Big E for Christmas has […]
To light it, you have to remove a sharp, screechy piece of metal . . and then hand-ignite the gas that flows through a small hole . . . and then replace the sharp, screechy piece of metal.
Then, so long as you have done the English to metric temperature conversions correctly, bake as directed.
If we […]
Rolling over Maadi as we speak.
Let’s hope it doesn’t rain too hard — as previously noted, at least four of our upstairs rooms have ceilings that leak.
As I have long made clear, I support the other guy. But I really, really appreciated Senator Clinton’s final words in the debate the other night. For us North Americans who, by definition, for the most part are born into extraordinary privilege, I think her comments are worth cutting out and putting in one’s […]
This Thursday marks the end of the second trimester at school. Wow, that puts us (well, some of us) in summer vacation in just over three months. And though happy with our lot (albeit of noble birth, we’re not), summer is our favorite time of year.
Before summer, though, there is plenty on the […]
Or, at least, some of them don’t. I found Hillary Clinton’s admission in the debate the other night that she has “never managed” to learn a language other than English enormously comforting.
But I also appreciate both candidates’ appeal for Americans to do better about learning second languages. On the one […]
In the time-honored tradition of adhering to those “healthy habits” that require no personal sacrifice whatsoever (as in, a glass of red wine each day is supposed to be good for . . . something), Evie considers herself entitled to one teaspoon full of honey each day.
I was up at 3 a.m., and I watched the whole debate.
Intrepid in all aspects, NG is one of the few U.S. magazines that knows how to arrive straight to your door in Cairo with minimal heartache or post-officely shenanigans.
It seems that Peter has recently renewed my subscription, supplementing the National Geographic Kids edition he currently underwrites for our family. What do you know, […]