

Arrrrrrrrgh. Pirates are excellent…or at least the semi-mythical swashbuckling kind are. more…

Today Ben is headed way up to Harlem to spend time with the family who babysat him when he was tiny. more…

It is inevitable that Lunch Posts get spilled on, crumpled, stepped on and…lost…. more…

I gave the boy some choices this week, asking what sort of Lunch Posts he wanted. Today he called “Egypt.” I resisted the urge to try for a Hosni Mubarak post.

The Kid has the whole week off from school, but we’re still managing to sneak in the Lunch Posts. I think the post speaks for itself.

Nope, there’s no direct connection between apes and presidents, despite the holiday (the House of Representatives, on the other hand…).

When he was little, Ben knew dozens of dinosaurs with names unpronounceable to any normal adult. He was on a first-name basis with critters that hadn’t yet been found when I was a kid, back in the dark ages when we still used the word Brontosaurus.