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Archive for March 2009

rattle a box of tic-tacs

On 18 March 2009

DEPRIVED CHILD MIGHT AS WELL BE LIVING IN A HOLE IN THE GROUND For obscure reasons, Nora came home yesterday with a small drug-size baggie of Lucky Charms. I guess this is related to St Patrick's Day somehow, or else they are selling leprechaun food instead of crack on the playground these days. She had […]

pay the doctor for your pills

On 11 March 2009

SCHOOL IRRITATION The other day I received a message from the kindergarten teacher. It said that Nora socializes in class too much, and if she does not tone it down LT and I will have to come in for “a conference.” What would we learn in a conference, exactly? That she talks too much? Of […]

last thin patina

On 4 March 2009

ADVENTURES IN AUTHORSHIP Nora has written another book, about a piece of macaroni that decides to have a “dance party.” (What is it with her and anthropomorphic food? Oh wait, it's my fault.) So he calls up his other pasta friends on the macaroni-phone and somehow a crocodile is there too, and for a while […]