I’m at my parents’ house, in my old bedroom; the kids and I arrived here from NY last night. The last time I lived here, I was eighteen; I’m fifty now. In some ways nothing has changed, in some ways, everything. Since arriving, I’ve had conversations about the abortion ban with both my daughter and […]
Had a little bit of a rough night of poor sleep due to tummy troubles — I’m not sure what set those off, possibly greed. I’d made a really nice pork curry, tamarind-tangy and slow simmered with coconut milk yesterday afternoon, and couldn’t resist having some….even though I KNEW I had an event to go
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This is my “I’m home from the school board meeting and it’s only 9:30, maybe I’ll actually get to sleep at a decent hour” face. 3 hr meeting tonight, not bad.
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Kavi has a babysitting gig this morning — she’s done a tiny bit of babysitting before, pre-pandemic, but more as a mother’s helper, where the mom stayed in the home. Today is full-on babysitting, and I think she’ll do great; she really likes little kids, is very responsible, has done the YMCA babysitting course, etc.
Sigh — the ‘pink slime’ piece about our board meeting last week has made it to Snopes. I am sorry that Snopes had to take time to debunk this pernicious nonsense, but they did do a good job, and included some of my fellow board member Ralph Martire’s quotes, which help elucidate some of what
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Apparently a wildly inaccurate article has been trending on Twitter, so for those following the recent slander about the D200 board meeting, this is a helpful analysis of what’s happening with that kind of ‘news.’ Analysis by a Georgetown University professor. https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/anatomy-of-a-fake
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OPRF COVID update from the superintendent: “Reported cases of COVID-19 have continued to increase notably here at the high school. During the week of May 6-12, we had 113 new student cases and 21 new employee cases. As a result, we are updating our mitigations as follows, effective immediately: Masks are strongly recommended for staff,
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Oak Parkers, tomorrow night is the deadline to apply to be appointed to the vacant library board seat. If you’ve been thinking about running for office someday, this is an opportunity to skip the ‘running’ part. Library board service is one evening / month, plus a few additional meetings here and there; it’s not very
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One of the administration people at OPRF asked me recently if I enjoyed being a board member. I didn’t know what to say. It’s a complicated answer, and I don’t think I gave him all of it. I hadn’t planned to run again this term, because I feel like my writing career is at a
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I Zoomed into it remotely today because I had lunch with a friend a few days ago, and she’s tested positive for COVID; I have no symptoms, but I’m going to be extra-cautious about contact outside the family until I can test effectively (5-7 days after potential transmission, I think, so I’ll take a test
Board meeting 6:30 – 9:20. Not too bad. Read More »
