28 Aug
I tear up when I watch this

This is the best video ever. If you have been surfing around for the past two months you have probably already seen it. I am sure you will want to see it again, because after all, it is the best video ever.
Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.
It makes [...]
20 Aug
Alphabet Soup

We bought a set of foam letters for Artemis to play with while she takes her nightly bath. They float and stick to the tile, tub and, apparently, her, too.
You can keep your silly backstories about radioactive spiders, trust fund orphans or gamma rays. In a large bowl of alphabet soup, a REAL heroine [...]
20 Aug
When You Get to the Bottom…

Artemis likes the slide.
04 Aug
Mean Girl

I overheard this monologue as Artemis and I arrived at the playground yesterday: “My husband is from Milan. When we go to Italy the playgrounds are totally different from here. The parents all stand back and let the children do their thing. If they are mean to each other or get [...]
29 Jul
First Day

My first day back at work went just fine. I like the people, I like the case, and I think I’ll do a good job.
Artemis and I spent an hour together this morning before I went to work, then half an hour at the end of the day, and then she went to sleep. [...]
28 Jul
Job Found

Tomorrow I’ll go to work. I found a job, and it didn’t even take two months. I’m feeling pretty lucky.
Several weeks ago, a neighbor offered to introduce me to a friend of his, a partner at the whitest of white shoe law firms in Philadelphia. We chatted and we both realized that [...]
16 Jul
Her First Birthday

This was her first taste of refined sugar. She ate the whole thing! Some highlights are when she blows out her candle at 0:11, when she tells everybody her age at 3:15 and when Emily tries to get her to share at 3:50.