One day last week, the above photos were in the Times accompanying that day's dance reviews - three different reviews, three different c...

I had the idea that it would be sweet to knit a sweater for one of Miss M.'s many teddy bears . I found a pattern at Wee Wonderfuls , a...

The following spam email message turned up in my office account last week: Dear Benefactor Of 2007 Masory Grant, The Freemason society of Bo...

All's right with the world - the little girl is asleep in her own bed, before 9:00. And she fell asleep in my arms while I was mangling...

Me: You're full of beans this morning. Miss M.: No, I'm full of lobster. I can only think that this is because we've been readin...

The constraint of Thursday Thirteen appeals to me - and I find myself constructing odd lists in spare moments. It is crunchy. It is indent...

Last week, Suburban Turmoil had a great post about how marketers do and should approach the mommy bloggers. I read it with interest, thoug...

When we picked Miss M. up at daycare yesterday, it was a beautiful fall day and all the kids were outside. We hung out for a bit chatting w...

Last week's New Yorker* had a profile of Jacques Barzun , "the eminent historian and cultural critic" which included this bit...

My mother’s lived in her house since 1972, and the people across the street were there before her. They were a sweet couple of teetotallers...

The things that can happen when you let your child dress herself: Plaids and stripes Shirt with little flowers, pants with big flowers, sock...

"The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things: Of shoes - and ships - and sealing-wax - Of cabbages - and kin...

I don't know what possessed me to count the bears, but there are thirteen of them. Thirteen ! Is that good luck or bad? Top Row, Left ...

Okay, they need a couple of words : it's a mailbox, attached to a tree, about nine feet off the ground, in Union Square park. Who is ge...

My friend David, a former colleague and accidental brother, blogless at present, sent me the following email. You might want to watch these...

I've been mulling over today's post for a while now - what to do, what to write, to somehow address the issue of the environment as ...

The rock has been returned to its brethren, though it appears to be the black sheep of the family. It is now residing in a stone wall outs...

This morning, in the four blocks between the subway and my office, I saw the following: A small boy in a stroller, wearing a Yankees cap ins...

I've been reading Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - her account of a year of producing most of their own food, and ...

I breastfed my child for two years and 364 days, and we haven't got a single picture of her nursing. It's not that we kept it a sec...