by Laurie Rockenbeck | Apr 29, 2010 | Avoiding Bedtime, Beverly Cleary, Parenting, Writing
Eli’s learned that trick of asking questions to keep us up later, or rather, to prevent himself from being put to sleep on time. Emma did it for a long time before we caught on, and now, I think we’re mostly too tired to protest and just make him go to...
by Laurie Rockenbeck | Apr 26, 2010 | Fluevog, List Making, Organizing, Uncategorized
The other day we were in the car and my friend, who is about to have surgery, brought up the concept of “check-lists” and how impressed he was the surgeon uses them during surgery. My nephew is an airline pilot who has mentioned how important...
by Laurie Rockenbeck | Apr 16, 2010 | Chinese Food, Uncategorized
Yeah, I know. It’s a provocative title. I would like to remind some of you I have a degree in advertising, so I might as well flex the word-power every once in a while and employ a bit of shock inducing hyperbole. But, by the time I end this little post, I...
by Laurie Rockenbeck | Apr 12, 2010 | Uncategorized
It was brought to my attention that I’m not really blogging yet. One post a month, apparently, is not enough. I was told by my husband that blogging is more off the cuff and not necessarily meant to be neatly rendered essays with witty quotations and...
by Laurie Rockenbeck | Apr 5, 2010 | Writing
I’d love it if we could take a little memory card and dump memories onto and make room for more–sort of like that thing J.K. Rowling did in the Harry Potter series with that silvery goo stuff. I can’t recall–heh–how many times...
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