Happy Christmas

Growth

Slate: Childhood Photos Recreated Decades Later

Wilma Hurskainen

A Cheese Course

In prehistoric times, when almost every adult was lactose-intolerant, the invention of cheese-making offered herders a way to turn fresh whole cow's milk into a food that they could consume without getting ill…In fact, evolutionary biologists at University College London have suggested that a genetic mutation to better tolerate lactose first originated in central Europe about the time this prehistoric cheese-making began. The inherited ability to digest cow's milk more easily is widespread today among people of European ancestry.

Robert Lee Hotz | "New Findings Point to Origins of Cheese-Making" | online.wsj.com

Bunk Bed

Imogen to Me:

"I want a bunk bed so that I can sleep on the top and you can sleep on the bottom."

A New Day

When I told Imogen it was bedtime last night she said, "But I'm not even tired a inch! I'm ready for a new day. I'm ready to go to a fair or something."

The Silver-White

Big Feelings

‘D’ is for Divorce: Sesame Street Tackles Another Touchy Topic

Richard Termine

I'm Dreaming

All Is Bright

The Miracle

Over The Cliff

Poor Women and Children Faced With Fiscal Threat

Diaperman

Recycle

I just read a post from May of 2008 when Imogen was almost two. She was going to throw away a clean diaper. I asked her not to and she replied "Recycle?"