I just wrote a post about the influence of corporations on parenting blogs at Information Wants to be Free. Adam and I are seriously thinking about starting to write reviews here of the toys and products that we buy for Reed in an effort to increase the number of trustworthy, uncompensated reviews of baby products [...]
Typing with one hand here (story of my life these days…)
Reed turned two months old today! We celebrated with his first hike in the woods, which he mostly slept through in his Ergo carrier. Part of me can’t believe he is already this old while another part feels like I’ve known him forever. The past [...]
Our house was built before the widespread deployment of cable TV. When cable finally arrived here (i’m guessing sometime in the late 70’s), the house’s previous owners just took a drill to strategic portions of the exterior and ran the cables straight into the rooms where they wanted service.
Unfortunately, they only ran the lines into [...]
I’d been painstakingly renovating the entire house getting ready for baby. One of the last rooms to finish was the guest bathroom, which was really dumpy.
New wallpaper, cabinet hardware, and a coat of paint made a major difference. Or rather it would have.
As I was victoriously applying the very last bit of paint to the [...]
I have been accused by many readers of not contributing heavily to our personal blog. What? Why… I never!
Actually, it is probably true. I’ve got dozens of lame excuses, but the reality is I’m just not as expressive as Meredith.
With a new baby on the way, I think Meredith was hoping it would cause [...]
We didn’t do a lot with our house for the first few years that we lived here (click here for pics of what it looked like when we moved in). I got my book deal within 2 months of moving to Vermont, so my mind was singularly focused on writing for a good long while. [...]
I was very pleased to see this recent post from Merlin Mann on 43 Folders about the shifting focus of the blog:
R.I.P., Productivity Pr0n
Friends, I’m done with “productivity” as a personal fetish or hobby. There are countless sites that are all too happy to vend stroke material for your joyless addiction to puns about procrastination [...]
