Isa
Kommune Kutz for Kidz
Isa gets her hair cut at this commune down the street. Yesterday we went and an older woman with long black braids was there with Stardust, Isa’s ‘hair artist.’ Stardust told Isa that the woman was a Chumash medicine woman. Isa excitedly told her that they had been studying the tribe in Social Studies class […]
a two for humor
Even though Isa is currently in private school, we’ve been trying to get the L.A. public school system to give her an I.Q. test (they don’t call it that), in case we ever want to go back into the system. It took over two years. But they finally gave her the test a couple weeks […]
my war with cyclists (continued)
My wife Bernie doesn’t like it when I yell, honk, or otherwise engage cyclists, when our daughter Isa is in the car. The subsequent mass flipping off and indignant screams of “fuck you!” are completely predictable and, in Bernie’s opinion, easily avoidable. That’s why I don’t yell at cyclists when Isa is in the car…unless […]
NPR Humor
On a recent road trip, NPR was humming along in the background, barely audible. There was laughter, so John turned up the volume. It was a woman telling a Thanksgiving story, about being filled with stress about her parents coming to New York City to see her. She spoke in what I can only call […]
canned laughter
This morning, my nine year-old daughter Isa aired a complaint about her math class from the back of the car: “They’re all craving laughter so badly, they’ll laugh even when the teacher makes the teensiest mistake, then they’ll all laugh luxuriously, like that was so funny. And I’m thinking if they’re craving laughter so badly, […]
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