Two of our colleagues became ill, one last November (a rare cancer) and the other in January with Guillain Barre. So we decided to throw them a bake sale on eBay, which has turned into a collection of the neatest things, such as an offer to debate the relative who mos… Read full post »

Poor Beebs, he lost 2 body parts yesterday. We took turns sleeping next to him last night, and now he's wondering where his constant petting went to.

And I'm wondering what that bit of wayward schmutz is, right there on the floor.

All that harassment paid off :)

This year I'm starting something new for your birthday. Instead of another letter, your mother, now a bonafide member of wwwdotlistmakersanonymous, has assembled this list below, which is all about you. Various observations made since last year's exercise, with length determined by your age… Read full post »

And we made these for her friends. She painted, I cut. 

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Our friend Jane sent these to me, photos making the rounds in Australia of a little koala who wandered onto someone's back porch looking for some relief.

Update:  Jane just sent this link: The koala is a baby, inadvertently abandoned by its heat-stressed moth… Read full post »

(Pie, above, melting on a very hot day. He died 2 days before Hannah's 6th birthday, and we're coming up on another birthday in March, her 8th.)

Bludgeoned by a 7-year-old meat-eating treehugger.

Images are behaving weirdly tonight so I won't make this one any bigger, but guess what Missy was! And she wore shoes.. Read full post »

 Can I say how annoyed I was when I realised my countdown was inaccurate, that I'd forgotten October had 31 whole days and not 30??

Anyhow. I love how kitty got a white stripe where he met with the book's spine.  Read full post »

Salon's art director, Bob Watts, died this year of cancer on January 3rd. After he passed away, we discovered he'd kept sketchbooks crammed full of notes, recipes, and drawings, and I was very happy when Lori, Bob's wife, recently sent me a cd of the artwork in those sketchbooks. We're all in… Read full post »

 Our contributing illustrator (and caricaturist) Zach Trenholm just sent me, out of the blue, revisions to the 2 caricatures we've been using for Senator Obama and Senator McCain. Zach's one of the best caricaturists I (we at Salon) know, and come November 5th one of these will get shelved. I th… Read full post »

We had a fight yesterday about her not eating the lunch I packed. The back of it says, "Put on Mommy's desk at end of the day! When Mommy's not looking."

Peanut butter balls are these slightly sticky things made of pb, oats, a crunchy cereal (rice chex), powdered… Read full post »

What I did to avoid watching the Vice Presidential debate (reading about it suits me just fine). I had such a hard time deciding between polar bears and wolves, so I happily did them both. The drawings are from a few months ago, but a second look convinced me to redraw the polar… Read full post »

Isn't this lovely? Our Ruth is on  Bouquet of the day! A wonderful clematis, and a great site.

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Cornell has a great project for kids: Finding and documenting ladybugs, Hannah's favorite insect. Any kid's favorite insect. Over the weekend Tom found a huge praying mantis under a rung of his ladder, and we let it go yesterday after days of watching it chomp on store-bought crickets. Small… Read full post »

Tooth fairies can forget what they're supposed to do. The last thing this tooth fairy remembers before falling asleep was that she was supposed to tell the tooth fairy's husband not to forget to leave the tooth out. She couldn't say much more since the little head that lost… Read full post »

We draw a lot at our house. Mostly it looks like this:

And there are times when she comes home from school with things that look like this:

I was a little suspicious of the painting above, and still am. And I've found out more about the process.… Read full post »