By Bob Hicks
The Wall Street cowboys keep whoopin’ it up with other people’s money, the Dow dips and rises like a desperate trout on a line, the economists crunch numbers and announce happily that the recession’s over.
And in the real world, people brace for the worst. Jobs disappear. People take pay cuts and thank [...]
By Laura Grimes
One fabulous day recently at the National Gallery in London a whole class of schoolchildren wearing matching blue uniforms were sprawled on the floor drawing intently. They chatted and giggled quietly, but they were focused.
They attracted me like honey. I edged closer and watched them. Some of their drawings were just spindly [...]
By Laura Grimes
“How’s JoJo dealing with jetlag?” his grandmother asked with not even a hint of a chuckle in her voice.
He hasn’t missed a beat. He was out the door first thing to track down his neighborhood buddies and tell them all about his travels. See for yourself, with kudos to the Small Large Smelly [...]
By Bob Hicks
Larry Fong, curator of American and regional art at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art in Eugene, has assembled a provocative and aesthetically stimulating exhibition that brings together Pop icon Andy Warhol and Portland movie director Gus Van Sant through the unlikely lens of the Polaroid camera, a populist aim-and-shoot wonder that [...]
By Laura Grimes
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“Cheese! Where’s the cheese?”
The Pantsless Brother and I say this nearly every time we scurry through the mazes of the Underground trying to find the right train. We feel just like rats.
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It’s time to say goodbye to all the fun we’ve been having. It doesn’t look like the ash cloud is going to [...]
By Bob Hicks
It’s the morning after the election, and Mr. Scatter has done his level best to tend to his civic duties by turning in his ballot (and Mrs. Scatter’s, since she’s off to London to visit the queen). As usual, he voted for a few losers (or as he prefers to put it, solid [...]
By Laura Grimes
The Pantsless Brother and I have had lots of fun encounters in London, where everyone has been friendly and helpful. Here are just two, which both happened today. Others deserve their own posts.
At the end meet the umpteen friends JoJo played with today. So many! He was a busy little monkey!
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TPB and I [...]
By Laura Grimes
“Headline: ‘British air space may shut as ash cloud resumes.’ Would someone please tell my husband I might be late for dinner?”
I put that post on Facebook a few days ago. It was soon followed by a comment from the Small Large Smelly Boy: “Are you going to be home for dessert?”
It turns [...]
By Laura Grimes
JoJo knocked on a door to see if anyone would play. It turned out to be this place:
The queen wasn’t home. Though it’s possible she just didn’t hear JoJo’s little knock. (Photo courtesy of that most excellent of photographers, Wikipedia, who obviously isn’t hampered by The Wimpy Camera.)
JoJo was mildly disappointed, but [...]
By Laura Grimes
“What time is it?”
I pulled out my phone and lit it up. “Nearly 8 o’clock.”
“Is it that late?”
“I’m pretty sure.” I stuck out my thumb and pointed over my shoulder behind me. “There was a clock back there.”
We were walking down the hill from this place:
That’s right. The Royal Observatory, Greenwich. As in [...]