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Rita reminds me of someone…

I work for a mom community website where moms come to ask each other for advice from other moms. We’re recently working on a project that has me spending lots of time reading, classifying and sorting these questions and answers. It is fascinating. Our community skews ultra right wing Christian, and so it is not […]

We drove to the Taj Mahal (pronounced Tahhj Meyal), yesterday. It is roughly 200km, 4 hours drive from Delhi on a highway. Just like in the states, small towns have built up around the main road. In India, this is dangerous as it means that a constant stream of people, horse carts, jalopies powered by […]

There are many reasons traffic is so bad in India. I’d say amazingly, infrastructure is not the predominant reason. One of the vendors we are looking at is located in Noida, Uttar Pradesh – just over the river from us – so we had a longer commute through a mildly more rural area, today. We […]

Where else can you find a Lotus, a Ferrari, a BMW 750 and a 50 year old ratty service truck parked next to each other? (outside my hotel) The Lotus Temple through my fellow traveler’s window. Some of that haze is on the window; some of it is heavy in the air. Where one goes […]

I’m working, packing and preparing for a halloween party, so no time to post, but here are some Halloween flash games and a crash course in Rocky Horror Picture Showing, in case that might be useful to you.

In an effort to improve the body of sub-par music we are all troubled by, daily, some beneveolent people introduced MoreCowbell.dj. Upload a song and add some cowbell and Christopher Walken.

A friend of mine asked me to post my weekly menu so that he could benefit from my planning or he’d know when to invite himself over for dinner. For him, here’s this week’s menu: Monday: Grilled red snapper fish tacos Tuesday: Heirloom tomato tart and salad Wednesday: Chiles rellenos and black beans Thursday: Tortilla […]

I wish I never found this: Mood Fabrics

There are moments when even mommies want their mommies. Thursday night I was home alone with the kids, when Sylvie dropped a glass Izzie’s soda bottle on our back stoop. I have this sixth sense, and should have trusted my instinct when she grabbed the bottle and I thought, “Amazing how none of the kids […]