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I’m so excited! I’m so scared!

March 17, 2011

So, I don’t know the easiest way to put this out there on the Interwebs since I’m sure everything will go to hell as soon as it is public but… WE ARE IN THE HOUSE-PURCHASING PROCESS. Mr. B and I have been looking very carefully over the past couple weeks for a house that made us feel just as yuppie as living in Bethesda and Arlington did. That is, the house has to be as awesome as my last kitchen ...

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WEATHER UPDATE: Winter still wintering, being bleak

February 1, 2011

Let me set the scene for you. 6:58 in the morning. I am bleary and driving to work, listening to the radio: It is slushing and a little bit sleeting because goddamn you already February: , but not bad enough that I don’t feel comfortable driving. The phone rings.  It’s my dad.  Frankly, I’m surprised he called so late, because usually he calls me at 6:15 am and then again at 6:32. “Are you going to work today?” “Yes, why?” ...

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Chinese Mothers and Russian Mothers Go Together Like Mao and Stalin (When they Were Besties, not before they had a falling out)

January 11, 2011

source. I have no children, so I am obviously a parenting expert.   And my parenting expertise tells me that Amy Chua, of the Mao Disciplinary Style Chuas, is onto something I’ve been struggling to articulate when talking to American-born friends about my upbringing. In her humblebrag post, “Why Chinese Mothers are Superior,”, designed to engineer enough controversy to ensure a reasonable first printing of her book and dibs on 4-star hotels at a future book tour, Chua outlines Chinese parenting ...

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Car Troubles

December 6, 2010

I’m writing this morning’s post from an exotic location that has become extremely familiar to me and one I hope to never have to visit again: a car dealership. In a spate of luck which I can only describe as Vickensian, Mr. B’s three-year old and extremely reliable Civic has started having issues that need to be checked out the same weekend that we finally started to look for a new car to replace my 11-year-old Accord. In a spate ...

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The Worst/Best Thanksgiving Poem Ever

November 24, 2010

Art from Julia Rothman. Thanksgiving – a strictly American meal With apples to cobbler and squashes to peel With green beans and pudding and  fancy red wines With unpronounceable things like aubergines Thanksgiving done thus is a Russian kid’s dream But in floats holodetz,  and you want to scream. Instead of  the stuffing and biscuts and pie Surprise! It’s oliviye and you want to cry. What’s that on the plate?! Is it penne ala vodka?? Oh no, God forbid, it’s selyodka. And ...

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