Author: cjbickford

But if I only alude to the Montessori Method’s failings, even in passing, I discover that nothing will get a Montessori parent shrieking faster and louder than evidence that their expensive private school may be shortchanging their child’s educational potential. It really is like a cult against which nothing negative may ever be said.

The weekend before last, I opened up my RAZR phone and discovered the screen was broken. I was devastated, especially since we don’t have a landline at home we can rely on. I could still use the phone to make and receive calls, but I couldn’t do anything that required a screen, like using my…

A few seasons ago, Peter and I enjoyed the TV show Joan of Arcadia. In it, an apathetic 16-year-old girl suddenly has God talking to her in the form of random people she encounters. When she follows their cryptic instructions, she indirectly became a force of positive change in the world. It also had an…

I have only seen 9 films in the theatre this entire year, and at least half have been children’s movies. And the rest (except 1) have been low-budget indie films. I was briefly disturbed by the thought that within my meagre lot of movie going, the actors I’ve seen most often on the big screen…

At the aforementioned Everclear concert (post below), I had the great grand luck to find a short girl to stand behind. She was at least a foot shorter than me and stood a few feet behind the person in front of her so that she could actually see the stage. As an added bonus, her…

Last night, Peter and I went to the Independent to see Everclear. As Peter will tell you, I worked myself into quite a state of anxiety, because it is one of the very few bands for which I would consider myself a true fan: I know all the songs and their lyrics and can’t get…

Peter is using Statcounter to monitor traffic on the Human Computing website. This impressive (and free!) tool not only tells you how many people are visiting your site every day, but also where they’re coming from, and how long they stay. He was having so much fun with it, that I decided to put it…