So this morning, I was at work at my new job. (Discount retailer. Toy department. Part time. Just for the holidays.) La-la-la, straightening the shelves, taking the frozen pizzas someone left on a shelf to the grocery department’s ruined items section, disposing of the can of silly string someone sprayed [...]
Coins shimmered and clanged on the table as they rolled from the piggy bank. The family friend who was sorting the coins as I helped Acorn count them told him he was very lucky to have all that money.
“He earned a lot of it,” I said.
She watched as he showed off with a somersault [...]
“Women really do prefer pink, researchers say.”
I’ll first note that I haven’t (yet) read the study this article references myself. However, as represented in this article from Reuters, this is some icky pseudoscience which apparently fails to take into account that the pink = femininity association is historically a very recent development, arising sometime [...]
A day to do something to honor the victims of the massacre at Virginia Tech and their families is an idea I can get behind. A day to do something and post about it on your blog, likewise.
A day of blog silence? Not so much.
It doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. [...]