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The Opposite Of Nostalgia
What don't you miss from earlier stages of parenting?
These Things Passed, And I'm Damned Glad They Did...
Around our Girl Child, the big, bright here-and-now throws everything else into shadow. Either that, or I've got some kind of weird memory disease. But I am often struck by… read on »
January 4, 2010
The Word-Size Queen
What happened to speaking simply to children?
That’s No Way To Talk To Your Baby
Blogging back to summer’s end … So close to Manhattan, you see vortexes of uptightness and bad mood all the time, but here is the terrible F5. Total destruction to… read on »
October 19, 2009
Pater’s Plays
O mio babbino caro (from Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi) by Renée Fleming
Pops of love-struck teenagers will relate. A daughter works “dear little daddy” so he’ll let her marry a guy she’s crazy for. She gets cute, begs, threatens to throw herself in river, howls how it hurts. But very, very beautifully, no?
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BAD KITTY Books by Nick Bruel
Bruel's brill books starring psycho cat has our seriously reluctant reader second-grader poring over the pages for half-hour stretches, even more, without threats…
October 15, 2010 | Permanent Link
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