So where am I, anyway? I'm attending the Internet Librarian conference in beautiful Monterey, California. This morning's keynote featured Vint Cerf, who was instrumental in developing the protocol that makes the internet possible and is currently chief internet evangelist at Google. Fascinating stuff! He told an amazing story about his wife, who was deaf from …

OK, this is an excuse to show off my cute kid 😉 -- but what does it mean when you go to a birthday party at Pump it Up and your cautious 7 year old wants NOTHING to do with the climbing wall, but your overambitious 2 year old is all over it?

Mr. 2 has been coveting Mr. 6's bike all summer, but just can't reach the pedals. I've been watching garage sales for months looking for a tiny bike that a (short!) 2.5 year old can use, but to no avail. Today we went to Toys R Us to find that, no, bikes aren't yet on …

So, I'm reporting in from Vegas! Does this count as frugal? I signed up for the hotel's free rewards card thing to earn points, and they gave me a free $5.00 credit to play the slot machines... Look, a coupon! 😉 So, that only took me about 20 seconds to lose! 🙂 This place is …

Welcome back to Work-at-Home Saturday, a semi-regularly-scheduled program of posts on the ins and out of working from home. Today, I'm working, so things will be very, very quiet around here. You see, in my other life, I used to be a librarian -- and the annual American Library Association conference is in Chicago this …

He seems to have the proper enthusiasm! Wow, is the kids' computer dusty... and yes, that is a giant pile of almost-free gum back there. 🙂