Wendy's Excellent Adventure

I'm reading Doris Kearns Goodwin's book, Team of Rivals, about Abraham Lincoln.  I'm about 200 pages into it and am finding it...

Not much terribly exciting going on these days, but rather than write the brief I'm supposed to be writing, I'm procrastinating by...

I'm listening to Bob Marley right now while I work. I read on a pregnancy website that the baby can hear things and that it's goo...

I'm in Pasadena, California, right now. We have a case that is up on Thursday for oral argument before the U.S. Court of Appeals for ...

I used to think that bluegrass and communities of bluegrass musicians were found in small, select portions of the globe. Namely, the southea...

My mother works for the State Department, doing passport security and immigration type work. She was recently talking to some American busin...

I'm about three quarters of the way through The Yiddish Policemen's Union , and I'm absolutely loving it. Reading Michael Chabon...

I learned how to swim when I was a year and a half old. People at our swim club in Venezuela used to freak out at the sight of a little t...

I'm going through that stage of pregnancy that is causing me to become a bit, er... gassy. So Jason gave me a necklace he made out of a ...

Jason has become good friends with a guy that he works with, Francis. Francis is a born and bred Hawaiian, as is his wife, Kim. Francis'...

I've read that pregnancy can bring on crazy dreams. I have pretty insane dreams anyway, but in the last week, I've dreamt three d...

I've added a new feature to the blog. On the right side of the page, there's a list of books I'm reading. I did this because I...

Last weekend we went to a new baby product expo in Honolulu. At one of the booths there was a prosthetic pregnancy belly for men to try on s...

We're at the point in my pregnancy where we're thinking about names. We've actually had first names for a boy or girl picked out...

Today my sister-in-law Lori is having another baby. Hazel, welcome to the world, sweetie. I can't wait to meet you!

Australians, or at least, the ones I know (e.g., my husband and his family), are unbelievable practical jokers. Jason's dad had a neigh...

It really shouldn't have been that complicated. There were a couple of teenage girls ahead of us -- typically giggly and silly, and, let...

The van is ready, and didn't even cost an arm and a leg to fix. (Never mind that we bought the damned thing a month ago and have driven...

I just got back last night from spending 4 days in San Diego at a special education law conference. The conference was fine and somewhat in...