Monthly Archives: May 2006

May 31, 2006 – 7:00 am

Magazine closings

Do we finally have enough magazines telling us how to parent?  Cookie magazine launched earlier this year, helping us all to be better upper-income parents.  Now, just weeks after Martha closed her Kids magazine, I learned Tuesday at Gawker that Bundle and Child have also announced they will no longer be newsstand titles.  (Child intends […]

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May 31, 2006 – 5:00 am

Why another Blog?

Why another blog?  So far you’ve learned “I want to blog” and “It’s hot!”  Haven’t these topics been covered, elsewhere?  Yes – but I don’t intend to recap the weather daily.  I hope to cover a broad range of topics – my inspiration is the blogs that I read every day.  Some make me laugh, like Gawker […]

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May 30, 2006 – 5:00 am

Too early for this ….

I know I’m in the minority, but why must it be so HOT in May?  It was 90+ on Sunday AND Monday, and it’s still hot and humid today!  It’s just so wrong to be cheated out of spring weather.  Yesterday’s purchase?  An inflatable queen sized mattress – so that we can sleep in the […]

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May 29, 2006 – 5:00 am

Memorial Day – a beginning

I’ve been thinking about starting my own blog for a while now, and today picked up iLife ’06 while running errands.  What will the blog be about?  My thoughts, inspirations, and more likely, current obsessions.  Today’s obsession is cupcakes.  I had cupcake pancakes for breakfast (that were so good) at Southport Grocery in Chicago.  How […]

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