Quick list today. Must take the Diva to her 7 year well kid visit. Any guesses on her current height?
* Our next vacation might have to be to the Wisconsin Dells, if only to go to Wizard Quest.
* Also on my next vacation, I'd like to tölt.
* Scratch all of that. I want to build a vacation around little known places in history.
* From my sister-in-law, who discovered this while looking for something completely different (and Russian): a wine rack. Literally.
* "Why do they so easily dare, not just to judge, but to give expression to their disdain, disapproval, smug superiority? And why — perhaps most to the point — do we put up with it?"
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Major design flaw with the wine rack. I don't even like my reds body temperature. And whites would be right out.
Posted by: Trish | June 30, 2009 at 02:43 PM
If you vacation in Philadelphia, you can walk from blue sign to blue sign learning where photography was perfected and where some of the teachers of Lewis and Clarke lived or where an African American caterer plied his trade in the 19th C. (And those are just the ones I can think of.) We've got your obscure!
Posted by: Anna | June 30, 2009 at 03:45 PM
Do you know about this?
http://infinitezombies.wordpress.com/
Re: Insult to Injury: I will add more of both: cheesecakes are prepared in springform pans, not Bundt pans!
Posted by: Debra | July 01, 2009 at 11:36 AM
Infinite Zombies is awesome. Thanks for pointing it out. There's also an infinite summer group, whose URL I can't dredge up right now. Shame that it took his death to get all of this DFW talk moving. Still. Nice to see.
It'd be awesome (sorta) if the wine rack also had ice packs.
We might be near Philly in July. Stay tuned...
Posted by: Adrienne | July 01, 2009 at 01:09 PM
I've stayed at the Wardman Park Marriott. It's all filled with antiques and gorgeous and right on a Metro stop.
Posted by: Heidi Dugan | July 02, 2009 at 09:45 PM
Beginning of rant...
I read that last article with interest. Believe me, my parenting adventures could fill a "How NOT to Raise Children" handbook, but one thing I've tried to drill into my kids is that you should never judge someone unless you've walked in their shoes. That seems to be the root of the problem - so many people today think it's their God-given right to judge others and then to express that judgment. Loudly.
And mothers seem to be easy targets, because we're doing the HARDEST job in the world. So it took me a while to come to this conclusion: Screw the people who judge you, and look kindly on mothers who seem to be having a rough time. We all need to give a little grace from time to time.
End of rant...
Posted by: Lee | July 02, 2009 at 10:35 PM