April 2012
2 posts
7 tags
10 tags
March 2012
2 posts
3 tags
Adrienne Rich, 1929-2012
II I wake up in your bed. I know I have been dreaming. Much earlier, the alarm broke us from each other, you’ve been at your desk for hours. I know what I dreamed: our friend the poet comes into my room where I’ve been writing for days, drafts, carbons, poems are scattered everywhere, and I want to show her one poem which is the poem of my...
5 tags
February 2012
2 posts
6 tags
WatchHarmonica, kouqin. (Sounds like, koe-cheen, with an ever-so-subtle n).
Emerson, her koe-cheen, a subway platform and a cuter outfit than longjohns? We’re thinking this kid has potential to be our household’s highest earner.
7 tags
January 2012
6 posts
6 tags
4 tags
“What may be the biggest boost to language-learning ability in children is the...”
– “Raising a Bilingual Child,” by Barbara Zurer Pearson, Ph.D.
6 tags
4 tags
5 tags
7 tags
December 2011
4 posts
8 tags
5 tags
““Based on my assessment of the scientific literature and the current...”
– Dr. George H. Leonard, Aquaculture Program Director, Ocean Conservancy, in his written testimony submitted to the Senate Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard for its hearing, “The Environmental Risks of Genetically Engineered Fish.”
9 tags
7 tags
November 2011
6 posts
8 tags
8 tags
6 tags
“If it makes good sense to cut down on sugars and their principal sources — soft...”
– Marion Nestle offered some thoughts on feeding sugar to kids in today’s Sweet Pea blog. The above quote is from her very excellent 2006 book, “What to Eat,” in which she leaves no grocery store aisle unexamined.
5 tags
8 tags
9 tags
October 2011
3 posts
6 tags
7 tags
6 tags
July 2011
1 post
5 tags
