Watch out, Mr. Ramsay! This week the culinary world receives a new chef: K. Graduation, as always, is a bittersweet time. I know she’s worried and excited at the same time about starting her new life in the culinary world. She’ll be doing her hard-won externship at the Biltmore in Asheville, which is very cool [...]
Archive for April, 2009
24 Apr
IEPs for U and ME
Is it spring again already?! Man. Either someone’s speeding up the clock or I’m getting old WAY too fast… We got the call for Little Miss’s Individual Education Program (IEP) meeting, and had that meeting this past week. No big surprises academically, as we have slowly seen that her fourth-grade work is falling farther and [...]
21 Apr
That headache time of year
No, I don’t mean allergy season, though that certainly would apply. I mean summer, and its attendant crisis-level situations about what to do when you have two working parents, special needs children, and services to arrange around family demands. We’re all busy. Even without the challenges I know a lot of you parents have of [...]
16 Apr
Veni, vidi, wiki
I have wikied. In broad daylight, once. But mostly under cover of night. My new skill for the week *insert fanfare of trumpets here* is that I have become one of the thousands–nay, MILLIONS– of authors of Wikipedia. A few posts ago, I referenced Maquis Universal, a science fiction RPG of which I’ve been a [...]
8 Apr
Vaccine? Not routine
Over the past several weeks, Little Miss has been having little twitchy-stretchy movements of her neck, arms and legs. I first noticed it at Disney, when she was holding her ears a lot, and I thought the unusual movement might be troubling her. But her classroom teacher noticed it too, so we had her checked [...]
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