It is only 7 weeks until Anna's first birthday. We're not quite sure how that happened, other than clearly time doesn't stand still except when you d ... View all

I have a bit of the sixth sense. It's never been complete enough to let me in on what exactly will happen next, but I almost always have an accurate ... View all

Last night we had a sitter since Ben had a rehearsal downtown and I had a rehearsal north of the city. We got home to find that Anna had gone to slee ... View all

Hey guys! First, I just wanted to say thank you SO MUCH for all of your advice and well-wishes since last time. My symptoms have finally stopped and I ... View all

Suzanne Briet once posed the question, “Can an antelope be a document?” in her article/pamphlet called What is Documentation?. I won’ ... View all

You may think you learned everything you needed to know about academic freedom when you took ACRLog’s Academic Freedom Quiz. The reality is that ... View all

By Michael FreundThe Jerusalem PostWith just a month left to go before he leaves office, George W. Bush has decided to pull the trigger and drop a bom ... View all

By Michael FreundThe Jerusalem PostFor a nation that has long prided itself on its fondness for romance and love, it seems odd that the French would d ... View all

By Michael FreundThe Jerusalem PostWhile much of the world is busy marveling over the results of the US presidential elections, Palestinian terrorists ... View all

So how's that for taking evil to the next level? First it was CC Sabathia, then it was AJ Burnett and now it's Mark Teixeira. People are complaining a ... View all

Okay, Christmas isn't totally effed. As a matter of fact, it's been a pretty darned good Christmas last night and today so far. . . if you ignore the ... View all

We here at Deepest Darkest Thoughts don’t often use this space for PSAs, but today in the spirit of Christmas, with hearts full of giving, love and in ... View all

Ahem. . . yes, I perhaps lost it a bit last night as you may have noticed in this last post.I have never been good with nights, not since I was a smal ... View all

I don't remember where I got this. I'm sure I stole it from someone else's blog. I don't know. It's been sitting around waiting to be completed for ... View all

I know there are dozens of expats that read this blog, and I know that all of them would be able to tell me there are things that they miss from back ... View all

"You know, I just want to buy something to remember this part of the trip. But there are no souvenirs," I said to Monica, an old friend from kindergar ... View all

We clattered down the paved walkway. Luminous green moss peeked through the chinks in the cement. Clattered because some of us were in high heels. I h ... View all

I just spent the last weeks with some very important people: my sister, my aunt Gill and my cousin Lewis. A few hours ago I waved as they pulled away ... View all

Previous to my last post's discussion on the best place to live, my mum (predictably) responded by saying that our family farm is the best place to li ... View all

It’s 3:41 a.m. I’ve been up since 2 a.m. when I awoke after hearing a weird fluttering noise in my bedroom and found a bat circling me and ... View all