One spin around the web for every week of the school year by Jennifer Binford This week: In Like a Lion Whoever said that April is the cruelest month didn’t live in central Texas in March. It’s lovely. Too lovely. So lovely, in fact, that event organizers can’t resist crowding just one more lively diversion [...]
One spin around the web for every week of the school year by Jennifer Binford This week: Back from the brink When it comes to sweets at the holidays, otherwise completely sensible, moderate, restrained adults have been known to overdo it ever so slightly. (It’s, ahem, no one you know.) Especially with those exotic confections [...]
One spin around the web for every week of the school year by Jennifer Binford This week: The giving season I wish I were kidding, but it’s practically December. Maybe this doesn’t come as a news flash for you, but those of us still emerging from a Halloween sugar bender are blinking uncomprehendingly at the [...]
One spin around the web for every week of the school year by Jennifer Binford This week: Pages by ages Remember my post not long ago about the weekly bestseller list for children’s books at The New York Times site? Retrace your websteps, because we’re headed back there for the special section on children’s books that [...]
One spin around the web for every week of the school year by Jennifer Binford This week: The perfect find date Two great calendars to tell you about this week—one virtual and the other ink and paper. The first is TodayInAustin, calendar heaven for the digerati among us (you know who you are). They aggregate [...]
One spin around the web for every week of the school year by Jennifer Binford This week: Cloud Formations I know. I’m combining weeks. It’s cheating. But we took a brief family excursion to Washington, D.C. (more on that in a minute), so I gotta catch up. But this should count for two weeks, because [...]
One spin around the web for every week of the school year by Jennifer Binford This week: Small Screen, Big Questions “Mom, can we rent Monsters vs. Aliens?” We’ve made our weekly pilgrimage to Blockbuster to choose a DVD for the weekend. “Um…” I stall, squinting at the characters on the case, trying to determine [...]
One spin around the web for every week of the school year by Jennifer Binford This week: Ghosts in the machine Forget roads and bridges. Maybe some federal stimulus dollars could go toward R&D for a Halloween costume that transforms from a pirate to a firefighter to Darth Vader and back again. Because between now [...]
One spin around the web for every week of the school year by Jennifer Binford This week: Turning over a new (fly)leaf Add it to the long list of indignities your second child will blame you for: hand-me-down books. By the time our now-kindergartener came along, the bookshelf in the kids’ room was groaning under the [...]
One spin around the web for every week of the school year by Jennifer Binford This week: Byte at the Museum Woo hoo for Austin Museum Day! I hope lots of families were able to get out and enjoy some of the nearly 30 museums, art libraries, and gardens that were open free to the public [...]
