Our 10 year old daughter EM yesterday: so um I didn't wear my pajamas to school on Friday, but other kids did, and Mr. C***** did because we thought it was pajama day and last month there was a lollipop day and we think there is a violation of the … [Read more...] about When Mom and Dad are lawyers–PJ Day Raises Policy Questions
spirit & personal
Five Snouts Up for “Groundhog Day” 17 years later
(:)(:)(:)(:)(:) out of a possible five snouts for Groundhog Day the 1993 movie starring Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell. Tonight my kids and I started a new tradition of watching it annually on February 2nd--important because in other respects our … [Read more...] about Five Snouts Up for “Groundhog Day” 17 years later
Pray for George
This a reprinting of my quarterly column--Eye on the Pie which appears in Rudolf's Diner. Please pass it on and Pray for George. I am beginning to believe that we need to start a national movement called “Pray for George” in which we concertedly … [Read more...] about Pray for George
Follow Your Mind…
Just spent 6 days in Yosemite reading Emerson's essay on Self-Reliance--this is the way to read Emerson (I can now say smugly, after only one essay, never having read Emerson before to my knowledge--I was a psych major, o-kay?).As far as I was … [Read more...] about Follow Your Mind…
The Storm Before the Calm
After working for a while to clean out my son's closet, I made the mistake of taking a break to look around the room: total chaos. A pile of stuff to give away in one corner; another coupla things to move into my closet; recycling; trash; mismatched … [Read more...] about The Storm Before the Calm
The Poly Bodytick
So like while you were all working today I was getting a fabulous massage from a woman named Pao, and I had like this great idea for my blog today and I was going to call it like the Poly Bodytick and it was going to be awesome.And now I barely … [Read more...] about The Poly Bodytick
Swami Parmanandi & Me
Friday night I experienced the hindi equivalent of seeing Bono play a room of 40 people. I went to hear Swami Parmanandji talk. The man is an official saint and is said to be followed by hundreds of thousands of people in the world, consulted by … [Read more...] about Swami Parmanandi & Me
The Dark Side of the Mood
(:)(:)(:)(:) for Magnolia viewed on DVD this evening at home. I became aware of this film in the following way:Bill: Wanna watch Magnolia with me tonight?snichols: What is it?Bill: It's a DVD I got from Netflix.snichols: No. I mean, what's … [Read more...] about The Dark Side of the Mood
The Minnesota TragedyIt has reached snichols attention that another terrible shooting in a school has transpired. In interviews today with NPR, the principal of the school described in detail the precautions the school had taken to prevent just … [Read more...] about
Change snuck up on snicholsLately snichols has realized that she's genuinely changed since she quit her more gainful employment some two and half years ago. She moves slower; she's less excitable; she likes to be alone more.Prior to "retirement," … [Read more...] about
64 Days of Nonviolence At snichols' church (the Center for Spiritual Awareness in West Sacramento, since you ask) we're engaging in 64 days of nonviolence a period that starts with MLK, Jr.'s birthday and ends with something to do with Ghandi (his … [Read more...] about
Acts of God and Money snichols, like all her fellow internationalists, has been interested in the tidal wave of money pouring into the regions most affected by the tsunami. Why, we all have been asking ourselves, not the Sudan, not AIDS in … [Read more...] about