Jason has been out of town teaching at an English camp this week and I’ve been filling the extra time with some extra blog reading. Namely one blog. It’s called “Fed Up With Lunch: The school lunch project” and it has been around since the beginning of this year, so some of you might already [...]
I took this picture of my kids playing the other day. Isn’t it sweet. I love to see them enjoying each other. I was looking at this picture and I thought, “Wow. It’s really grungy.” The steps are scuffed and dirty. The chairs are dusty. Some of them are broken. The paint on the rails [...]
It’s confession time here at Far East Street. Again. I love the Angry Birds app. L-O-V-E. If you have an iPhone/Touch/Pad you might know what I’m talking about. But if you don’t, Angry Birds is a game where you slingshot different kinds of birds to try to destroy pigs and the structures they are hiding [...]
We’ve all heard the talk about how much magazines, Hollywood, TV ads and all other media bombard girls and women with images of skinny minnies, thus shaping our own thoughts about body image: what we think “pretty” means, what we want ourselves to look like, etc, etc, etc. Different people are affected by this on [...]
Why is it that when your average woman gets her hair cut short she is considered hip and daring, but when a woman who also happens to be the mother of a baby or toddler gets her hair cut short she has gotten a “mom-cut”? I mean, let’s face it, the dirty little secret of [...]
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