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UPDATE, FRIDAY OCTOBER 13: Brandon and I visited a new preschool this morning and I haven’t been this excited in quite some time. It’s simply perfect. It’s a Reggio-Emilia based parent co-op right in the heart of Berkeley. Will keep you posted on how it goes.

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I’ve had occasion to think a lot lately about education. It’s certainly not the first time that subject has been on my mind - …

… you have an excuse to play hooky from work for a couple hours and hold a 2 day old baby duck in your hands. Click pic for bigger version.

This past Sunday, I went to Soul Sanctuary, which is a family-friendly dance jam over at Ashkenaz, a Berkeley institution. It was a lovely experience. It felt like Church in the best sense of the word: community, openness, joy. Nice music, nice Berkeley hippie folk, no rules, just music and moving and grooving. Cool. So after the dance, we had a little circle time. The DJ told us that his …

Went to a Thai restaurant tonight with the boop. He, of course, enchanted all the women working there with his usual antics and happy demeanor, and they brought him some ice cream as a reward for his cuteness. He’s eating his ice cream, scooping it up all by himself and getting most of it into his mouth. Then I ask him, hey, can Mama have some? He scoops up a …

[editor’s note: This post won me the “customer of the year” award from gDiapers! And a lovely lunch with their charming CEO. Dang, I need to blog more often!!] Recently I found out about a new system of diapering - flushable diaps! This is very exciting to the mother of a 19-month-old. Look, I like the earth and all, but I think cloth diapers and washing them …