Lil’ Monkey literally sucks the words out of her auntie’s mouth with her eyes, as she reads the beloved children’s classic about a duck’s near-fois gras adventures.
I have renewed compassion for Scheherazade.
There seem to be two kinds of weblog posters, the peripatetic, prolific types — the digital equivalents of Joyce Carol Oates, let’s [...]

The zoo was a drab sepia, but for the lone, might-poop-if-we-wait-long-enough monkey. Who was actually not the Ancient Mariner referred to in the title above. Read on.
We met the Ancient Mariner the other day at the zoo. The lil’ monkey and I went there in hopes of revisiting the phenomenally memorable monkey-going-poop! [...]

So sometime earlier today, the folks at the Weblog Awards enabled the voting screen on their site. Here’s how to cast the vote:
1. Go to the 2006 Weblog Awards: Best New Blog page.
2. Scan the entries, roll &/or hover your cursor over all the other finalists for a moment, heightening the dramatic tension a bit.
3. [...]

Kidding. I will totally figure it out by the weekend.
Kidding!
The beloved looked over my shoulder and was sure I’d be turning would-be voters away for several, critical, landslide-inducing voting days. I says NO! Dry humor is visible a block away! The would-be voters will persevere! Or at least [...]

With apologies to Lee Meriweather, Miss America 1955
(whose story is here, whence I filched this image)*.
Day one of sitting back and sipping a parasol’ed, coconut milk-infused beverage on a chaise lounge, lolling in the afterglow of making it into a Weblog Awards Finalist berth for Best New Blog, and I sit up with a JOLT! [...]

We’re talking Chi-town, circa 1930. [Ooops! I stand/sit corrected! By my know-it-all brother-in-law! Ooo, it stings! Make that circa 1950s-60s.]
The Weblog Awards are the world’s largest blog competition, with over a million votes cast in the last three years for nearly a thousand blogs. And yes, gentle reader, you [...]

In training to become as dogged an editor as her ma, who is always willing to give a draft yet another look, despite being nigh on 8 mo. pregnant.
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Our lucky darlin’ has two living grandfathers: my father, who lives nearby and who’s known as DadDad, and my beloved’s father, who lives far away in the Midwest, and is known as Grampy. He came to visit this past week, to the delight of all his grandkids.
They love his company for so [...]