female, twenty-four years of agenorth jersey
like:
trains
flip-flops
the smell of the ocean
hemingway and faulkner
legal pads
dislike:
mayonnaise
"wintery mix"
beeping alarm clocks
solar flares
My Family's Experiment in Extreme Schooling (NYT Magazine)
Three American siblings attend an experimental school in Moscow where instruction is only in Russian and classes are videotaped to improve teaching.
This video is all around wonderful but the interviews at “The Corduroy Appreciation Club” are fantastic.
Tomorrow’s Child
By Glenn Thomas Without a name; an unseen face A wise friend introduced us two, Knowing you has changed my thinking, Tomorrow’s Child, my daughter-son Begin I will to weigh the cost
and knowing not your time nor place
Tomorrow’s Child, though yet unborn,
I met you first last Tuesday morn.
and through his sobering point of view
I saw a day that you would see;
a day for you, but not for me
for I never had an inkling
That perhaps the things I do
might someday, somehow, threaten you
I’m afraid I’ve just begun
To think of you and of your good,
Though always having known I should.
of what I squander; what is lost
If ever I forget that you
will someday come to live here too.
One of the few upsides to constant babysitting is that it gives me plenty of opportunities to work on my fort building skills.
Pop Pilgrims: New York: The Royal Tenenbaums House
