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I’ve been writing an essay in my head on and off about adoption, international adoption, etc. This research, my children, adult adoptees … so much to consider when thinking about adoption.

The Lie We Love

Suffice it to say that, as with much in life, nothing is clear cut … there is nothing that is starkly […]

Nicky, Noelle and I cast my votes today (lots of terms up in NJ this go round).  Not Carlo.  He got dropped off at school, first.  I brought Noelle to vote with me at every election since she came home and she has always behaved just fine.  I brought Carlo last year and he started […]

TVLand is showing 3rd Rack From the Sun in a marathon, apparently.
Oh, it was good, wasn’t it?
I might have to delete off those two seasons of Battlestar Galactica that have been waiting for me to get to them for months to make room for it.  I can go buy those two seasons on DVD in […]

I have been sucked into the beauty that is fivethirtyeight.com. I’m not a statistician (I’ve often regretted never having taken a statistics class — though the Nate’s modeling is well beyond Statistics 101).  None-the-less, I have a deep appreciation of how “crunching the numbers” can illustrate the world. Although the number crunching is […]

I’m trying to file amended tax returns for 2007, now that I can finally claim Carlo as a dependent as he has a social security number.
Ugh.  Its not pleasant.