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Ollie has discovered music. He dances during our family dance parties, bouncing along and swaying with a huge grin on his face. One of the bounciest songs is the bizarre and ear-wormrific “What Does the Fox Say?” by the Norwegian brothers known as Ylvis. If you haven’t seen it, which tropical island hosted your shipwreck? […]
People seem to marvel how quickly a baby’s first year flies by, but honestly, it went by rather slowly for me. When Ollie was six months old, I wrote about the turtle-like pace of his first half-year. The second half was more of the same stroll, but with added mobility, smarty-pants discoveries, saying words on […]
“Gravity” could have taken place on the top of Mt. Everest, or on the ocean floor. It’s not about space. The story told in “Gravity” is sweetened and deepened by being set in space, however. It’s a character, too, a metaphor for every type of vast emptiness and cold incomprehensible hostility aimed at human fragility. […]
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