M. (hristine

The French drink?? Now there's news!

You don't think you'll be able to make this?

Perhaps again in the spring my friend.

kidsmoke has to be the most organized traveller I have ever met. One extra tip...unless you have crazy unique luggage, put some brightly colored yarn or other demarcation on your checked luggage for easy ID on the carousel. That way you won't be at your guest's house 2 1/2 hours away from the airport and open nearly identical luggage to get your jammies out only to discover you have someone else's bag. PS Have an awesome time, Sarah!

Tuesday, August 7. Secret location in Woodstock, NY. You down?

Oh, fuck yes.

Huh. As it turns out, I am going to be in town that very week. Whatta country this America!

Pro cyclists have become modern age vampires. "milk blood to keep from running out"

Please read this book. Please read this book. Please read this book. ----> That looks wonderful! The Kingsolvers! OMG! Ordering right now. Thanks!

Also, these farmed salmon (a natural carnivore), are being bred to eat corn (the scourge of the earth). Just like farmed cattle (a grass ruminant) are having their bodies drugged into submission so that they can eat corn. Perhaps we could turn this into an M. (hris and fat.boy thread.

Dreamin' Judy posted it, and I can vouch for it's deliciousness: Maple Glazed Wild Pacific Salmon Marinade: 1 part soy sauce to 2-3 parts maple syrup (you can mess with the soy to maple ratio, depending on how sweet you want to go) Marinate wild salmon fillets for 24 hours, then coat one side with freshly cracked black peppercorns (and/or black sesame seeds, if you prefer). Throw it on the BBQ or bake in a preheated oven on highest temp for approx 7 min. Best enjoyed with a glass of pinot noir from the Okanagan Use wild, not farmed salmon. Always. Edit: this is M. (hris

Hardest I've laughed all day. Thanks Maudie.

Exactly. Thanks for saying what I couldn't seem to.

I figured you loved it, which is why I offered a different perspective. It took me a while to get it through my skull that Sarah wasn't going to dig something just because I did. That the point was to engender in her a love of reading. Both of my older kids loved to read from the get go. Reading at the table, in the car, they always had a book with them. With Sarah I had to take a different tact, and had to be more dilligent and subtle in encouraging it. (Propbably none of this applies to you and your daughter. Just throwing my experiences out there.)

When finding books for Sarah to read, we tend to gravitate towards National Book Award winners. A recent list can be found here, and you can google for more titles as well. Sarah's favorite book from last year was Dancing On the Edge by Han Nolan. Something I learned while encouraging Sarah to read, is insisting that she read for a specific amount of time every night. Not negotiable. I wanted her habituated to reading. Also, I was conscious of allowing her to find her own way about what she wanted to read, not what I thought she should read. As much as I would have liked her to read Nancy

Awww, sweetie. Congratulations to you and your husband. Yay babies!

I love Joe, heart and soul.

Mitch's character reminds me way too much of my own dad. Had my dad levitated, dealt with near death and miraculous recovery of his grandson, then have to face my mother after fucking around on her, I guarantee he would have been gone the whole season.

Sarah and her grandmother both got their copies this weekend just in time for a road trip B&B to Hannibal, Missouri. I wish I could have been a mouse in their room to see Polly and Sarah in their jammies reading Harry side by side till long into the night.

She's a lucky gal. Congrats deepcatman!

Wow. I'll be in the same building as ikol.

Please God, help me stop watching the back episodes long enough to take care of my responsibilities today.