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Walking Without Support

Jan 18. 2012

I am happy to announce that, at 15 months of age, Claire has finally started walking. Let me rephrase that. She has finally started walking without support. Because she has been walking with one hand against the wall or along some furniture, or one hand holding someone's hand, for over a month now. We all knew that she could physically walk by herself, but that she was too afraid to let go. Then, just this past weekend, BAM! It's like she suddenly happened upon a chest full of courage and started walking everywhere by herself. Dim light + fast-walking kid = blurry picture I have been so proud of our firstborn lately. Everyone tells us that she's one of the smartest babies they've ever met, and even...

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Word as Image

Jan 17. 2012

I am loving the Word as Image project and the accompanying book. Started 20 years ago as an assignment in typography class in art school, Ji Lee creates images out of words by contorting the letters that form the word itself. Anyone can create a word as image. It doesn't require any design or drawing skills. All you need is a little creative thinking and to see words and letters in a different way. The dictionary is filled with thousands of fun visual puzzles just waiting to be solved. Now that I think about it, I can recall that I learned the word "parallel" — which happens to be one of the words pictured below — by remembering the three parallel lines embedded...

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Cool Tool Tuesdays: Panasonic Electric Thermo Pot

Jan 17. 2012

I have decided to implement some regularity to this blog. I believe that not only will it give readers something to look forward to on a weekly basis, it will also force me to be more creative as well as provide a focus when I am struggling with writer's block. The new schedule will not be too rigid, because anyone with kids — heck, without kids too — knows that life is anything but predictable. So for now, I plan on doing the following: Cool Tool Tuesdays, where I feature a favorite item from my life and spotlight it so that others who are not familiar with the product may also benefit from it. A cool tool can be any book, gadget,...

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