I am in Chapel Hill, NC visiting my Baby Friend Asher. As many of you know,
he hails from San Francisco, but since he was on my coast I drove three hours down to see him
while enjoying
Caleb’s Crossing by
Geraldine Brooks.
This was a good book, but it dragged at times – particularly
at the beginning and at the end. This
was not as good as her books Year of
Wonders (awesome) or People of the Book (above average). But it was an interesting story about one of
the first few Native Americans to attend Harvard in the late 1600’s. If given the choice, I would rather attend Indiana University in the early 2000’s when their basketball team goes to the
National Championship.
I checked out this audio book from the library online. After several attempts and 90 minutes of pure
fury, I figured out how to do it. Here’s
a tip: just read the directions.
Trust me, I know there is nothing worse than reading a few simple steps
and then following them, but please believe me here.
This, I might add is the polar opposite advice I would give
you for keeping Baby Asher alive for a few hours. His Mom and Blog Reader Kate gave me all
kinds of Choose Your Own Adventure-type scenarios with potential solutions, but
when it came down to it, I just let Baby Asher do whatever the hell he
wanted. Sure, let’s chew on a bag of
toiletries! Now let’s dump peas on
Allison’s skirt! If his (wise) parents
had left their credit card, we would have been in real trouble.
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Inner baby monologue:
"This chick will do whatever I want.
I said PEARS not SWEET POTATOES.
Ugh, grown-ups" |
