Where to stay in NYC

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We loved our hotel. The Helmsley Park Lane right on the south end of Central Park. Here’s some view and things.

The tall skinny one is the Helsmsley Park Lane

View from the 15th Floor

Looking Down on the Horse [...]

Post-Vacation Classes

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This is me back from 3 weeks of vacation. We are TIRED!

All parts of the vacation were stellarabulous! Here are some pics.

Me & Johnny Depp do New York City

Top of the Empire State Building

Waiting for Macy's to open.

How about a [...]

Pre-Corpse Classes

My sweetie-pie asked a reasonable question, “Since they have pre-natal classes, why don’t they have pre-corpse classes?”

Okay, that might not pass as reasonable dinner table conversation in your household but around here, that’s just the way we roll.

Society thinks that a huge life-changer like having a baby should come with some supportive information and practice. Although [...]

One of the Hated Sect

I’m a teacher. One of the hated sect of humans who think they know more about your kid than you do. Well, not really on the knowing more, but we (and I) do think we know a lot about kids in general and yours in particular. That’s what your taxes pay us to know.

You want us [...]

Flaming Chainsaw Massacre a la JD Canfield

Seems I am incorrigibly clever when it comes to commenting on Joel Canfield’s many websites. My favourite is about the Nomad Canfields – who are currently living in my house, without me! It’s called http://canfieldofdreams.com. Next favourite is http://notwhatimeant.com.

At the beginning of July, I was enjoying Joel’s philosophical and personal ruminations about passive lying and I [...]

Coming Home

Coming home to find out what the Canfields have done to our home, our dog, our crop. From early warnings, we are likely to find re-organized kitchen drawers, a BBQ’d dog – possibly made into bacon, a video and audio recording of the visit complete with exclusive soundtrack, and neighbours scratching their heads, or having put [...]

Brains in 400 Words – Part 3, “Smarter Means More Pathways”

Back in time (like the 1980′s) someone was trying to figure out how to make gifted kids smarter. At the time – the beginning of the personal computer – we mostly just filled gifted kids up with more information and hoped they would retrieve it for us when we needed it. Many of them had one [...]

Brains in 400 Words – Part 2, “Agent of My Own Demise”

At some level we are all agents of our own demise. We cause a little bit of our own death in every action, and maybe most of our thoughts. Fortunately, the reverse is also true. We are agents of our own success.

Without a well-developed prefrontal cortex it’s hard to grasp that your life is what you [...]

Brains in 400 Words – Part One, “Sitting Still”

Some time ago I asked for feedback on what I might write that you might want to read. One answer is that you want to read about brains in 400 words. Or something like that.

So, here’s what I know today. If you put a person, especially a young person on a Balance Board, you can tell [...]

No More Anniversaries Until the Last Week of August

Notice how I put “last week of August” in the title? Not August 23rd or August 24th. One of those days my parents got married, and the other day my grandmother was born. Both events occurred before my birthday, so how can I be expected to remember what’s what?

As it stands now, there is no celebration [...]

Happy Anniversary AGAIN

photo by Jamie Delaine

Only not us, this time. The very best thing next to us … Adam & Lyndsay! Adam is my evil spawn and Lyndsay is his evil wife. I am the evil mother-in-law, and my sweetie-pie tries to stay out of all this evil – but for all we know he may be [...]

Overwhelming response to my survey.

One of you, dear faithful readers either cares/ has an opinion/ has time/ other, to tell me what to do. Astounding really. Considering how often I exercise my “right” (ability to get away with) to tell people what to do, I figured many of you would jump all over the chance.

The one respondent said, “Stop writing [...]