Today is my father's birthday

And we ended up putting a ramp in anyway. (No, those two statements have nothing to do with each other, but keep squinting and maybe they will.)

So now our yard is all torn up. Ugh. It's gonna be a real pain to plant this year, but on the bright side, maybe we've finally gotten rid of our horrible spreads-by-runners weed that was all over everything!

Three articles about hard times and the city

One about how recessions, paradoxically, spur people to give more money

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One about the clothing stores that destroy unsold goods before tossing them. Ugh.

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And a follow-up, of sorts, of where they could send those clothes instead - kinda like the food bank, but for clothes.

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A few vaguely kid-related articles/blog posts

One on how a little girl, who is nominally Catholic, came to decide that her toy giraffe is Jewish.

One about teaching kids traditional games, which I'm sure I've posted before

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One on how some schools in the city are putting an environmental focus into the curriculum.

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One on a new Nick Jr. show that focuses on math, a subject that is sorely neglected in "educational TV"

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One from a few months ago about Sesame Street's 40th birthday and how the show has changed (and, if you ask me, not for the better)

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An article on the brain's perception of time

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/05/health/05mind.html

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Haven't seen this before

http://www.aspergerjourneys.com/2009/06/02/intense-world-syndrome/

I'm feeling inexplicably exhausted right now, so I'm not going to read it just yet, I'll do that later.