Author Archives: fustianist

I’m a sucker for new pizza ideas, and the other day Sydney and I stumbled across one that sounded great.  For those of you who are in the Ithaca area, it comes from Hazelnut Kitchen, a great local-foods restaurant in … Continue reading →

My first appointment with the midwife was, to put it mildly, confusing: lots of terms I had trouble translating, lots of confusion about what’s standard both here and in the States.  And she frowned and said, “you’re small” when measuring … Continue reading →

I thought that maybe this time around we could do away with most of the gadgets that come with children.  We already worked through the trials of finding a stroller (my workhorse!), and we have no need for a carseat … Continue reading →

With the unwieldy slush gone and the worst of the flu behind us, we’ve reemerged from the house. Sydney made the mistake of going out birdwatching without cleaning up (he’d been holed up on the top floor, working hard for … Continue reading →

Katherine’s favorite thing in the world seems to be birds.  First it was “quack quack” and “duck duck,” but she’s since expanded (or confused) her world to include all manner of birds.  When she and I sat down to play … Continue reading →

When I was in the stationery store the other day the young man at the counter suddenly asked, “Do you get a lot of mood swings?”  Answering “no, not really” before I remembered that I’m pregnant (and not just female!), … Continue reading →

Sydney looked around our house and complained about the lack of good reading material for sick days.  When I started to protest, he made it quite clear that I would be a fool to suggest my Woolf and Faulkner novels … Continue reading →

Sydney had been planning to fly out to Boston tomorrow to give a paper at the philosophy association’s annual meeting.  But he’s now fighting his own round of the flu, and it looks like condition at the airports in both … Continue reading →

Ha.  Ha ha.  Not what we needed.  K managed to fend off the worst with a high fever and some sniffles (as well as waking nearly every hour for the past several nights).  I got nailed and am only just … Continue reading →

Last Sunday we had dinner with Sydney’s colleague, Chris, a man who bravely made the invitation for the whole family and who has two (grown) kids of his own.  Katherine did a great job of keeping her dress clean and … Continue reading →