The Map-Maker's Mother

My work-out routine was shot to splintereens this summer by my erratic childcare schedule, but I thankfully made it to Nia this week. Nia gets described in all kind of elaborate ways, but it basically boils down to Jazzercize for the New-Age-inclined. In other words, it incorporates a lot of yoga-type discussion of chakras in between [...]

Remember the show Mad About You? Paul Reiser, Helen Hunt pre-Oscar? I keep thinking about an episode when Jamie is pregnant and she and Paul are arguing about the relative amount of sacrifice that will be required by parenthood, with Paul asserting that Jamie will, inevitably, sacrifice more. “Why, because I’m the mommy?” Jamie asks in [...]

My parents have headed off on a summer jaunt to Europe (with complete and utter disregard to my childcare needs. ahem.), and MapKid and I were talking about when they were leaving and how long they would be gone.
“So England is an island?” he said. “What’s an island?”
“It’s a piece of land that is surrounded [...]