[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] Hilarious conversation among the Loy ladies, sitting around the dining-room table this morning: Loyacita, 4: Mom! Look at my map. It’s the sun, Mars, Jupiter and Earth. But there’s an asteroid coming! Oh no!Loyette, 5: Quick! Hop on the magical boat!Becky: The magical boat?Loyette: Like the magic school bus, but… Read more »
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) tweeted this image earlier today, with a one-word caption: “Unacceptable.” I may not be a Cruz supporter, but hey, when he’s right, he’s right. Unacceptable, and unconstitutional. As I wrote on Facebook last night: I said this under Clinton, I said it under Bush, and I’ll… Read more »
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] Loyacita, age 4: [during an evening thunderstorm] “Daddy, where does rain comes from?” Me: “Well, you see…” Loyette, age 5½: [interrupting] “It comes from clouds, [Loyacita]. Clouds are made of tiny water droplets, and when the water droplets get close to each other, they come together—sort of like magnets—and turn… Read more »
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] Above is a “word cloud” by Wordle, created via manipulation of the CSV file included in my personal Twitter archive, showing the 350 most frequently used words in the 79,787 tweets that I published – “new-style retweets” excluded – between August 26, 2008 and July 25, 2013. You can get… Read more »