It’s probably already too late to get the supplies for your Halloween costume. Someone else with superior planning skills and costume-planning moxie already snatched up the good stuff. Just take a look at the wigs we found at Goodwill this…
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T-t-t-t-TRAIN COMING!!!
Hang out with some little kids for a while and you’ll realize how amazing EVERYTHING is. Maybe you have trains or trolleys or streetcars or railcars or funiculars or electric buses or rickshaws in your hometown. But have you ever…
Children and Fashion
Alright, here’s the deal: at some point you begin to care how you look. For some this happens at five, others at fifteen, others…well, they’re the ones you see in saggy sweatpants and loose slippers shuffling through Walmart. Child Harbat…
Parental Love
There are good days and bad days, and moments in a day like blades of sunlight cutting through stormclouds. Life isn’t a train of events, each linked to the next by the relentless curling wave of time. No, life is…
Turtle Baby
There is no accounting for love. It strikes unexpectedly and doesn’t follow rules or conventions. During an IKEA outing several weeks ago, Number Two was getting fussy, what with the endless turns into rooms full of lamps, reasonably-priced kitchenware, and…
Going Barefoot
Kids have it right because they haven’t enough civilization and experience to do what isn’t natural. Let’s face it, we are animals, in the species timescale just a blink away from striding the plains and bashing each other with clubs.…
Stocking the Closet
It must be one of the most primary and ingrained feelings: the sense of contentment you get from being well-stocked with provisions. Tens of thousands of years ago it was the sight of smoked mammoth meat stacked in the back…
Dinnertime Craziness
It all collides at dinner: low blood-sugar, stimulus overload from a day of school, punchy tiredness, and the impossibility of getting four people at the table at the same time. Forget the genial family dinner set under the olive trees…
Getting More Food on Your Face
Of all the things I have to deal with in parenting–the temper tantrums, dirty diapers, unflushed toilets, runny noses–the thing that irritates me is messy faces. Child Harbat never had too much of an issue with this and learned to…
Life’s Little Defeats
It’s not the catastrophic failures that wear you down–those you mark as unique and unrepeatable. No, it’s the breaking of a bridge by the stamping of ten thousand small feet. At the end of the day when you’ve rejected your…
