I can’t believe it’s time for all of the back to school stuff already. TT has already had her two Kindergarten Social thingies, where we learned that the upcoming kindergarten class is 75 percent boys and 25 percent girls, and it’s the largest group of siblings, ever. There were only something like 18 spots open [...]

I was recently pointed to this article, which talks about the trouble that the sporting goods and apparel industries are having with their in-China production. Here is a quote from the article: The causes of China’s seemingly sudden labor shortage were planted many years – even decades ago – and most agree the era of [...]

If you’ve got a YouTube video (or other video site that you can link to here) of your kids that you’d like to share, please share the link to it in today’s comments. Please do not email videos to me – only link to videos already uploaded. You can also embed the video in the [...]

Here in the U.S., if someone is sentenced to prison and there is no family to take care of the child, then the child goes into the foster care system. I believe there are some women’s prisons that allow a baby to go with the mother if the mother’s stay will be a short one, [...]

Has anyone seen anything lately worth talking about? I have no idea where they are going with True Blood. They’ve gone so far off of the map that I’m not sure what’s happening. That was probably the intention, but it’s still a bit annoying. I don’t like the actor playing Alcide, but I do like [...]

Some school systems in the U.S. have stopped teaching cursive, calling it an “obsolete form of writing”. No one writes letters anymore, we send email. In another generation or two it’s likely that cursive will be gone from the general population. It looks like China is having a similar problem with their characters. The way [...]