September 4, 2006

When What We Love And Who We Love Are At Odds

Whatever his animal conservation and awareness accomplishments, Steve Irwin's clownlike persona and the unfathomably unpredictable circumstances of his death make him a poor posterboy for discussing the issue of whether to continue extreme behavior after you have a kid. [And...
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Returned To Secaucus, Seventy Percent Off: DWR Annex

Every once in a while, by my count--or every time we're on the Turnpike, by my wife's--I express an interest in building a vacation home in the New Jersey Meadowlands. Not the sports complex, of course, the swamps, the...
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Big G, Little g

In one of her frequent retro modes, the kid wanted to read her warped, chewed up copy of My First ABC Board Book this morning. This time, I just did the letters, "Big A, little a," etc. And in...
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Baby-Dangling Croc Hunter Killed In Freak Stingray Accident

TV personality and wild animal wrangler Steve Irwin, shown here in 2004 dangling his plump, 1-month-old, chicken-sized son during a Crocodile feeding show at his animal park, has died while diving on camera, off the coast of Australia. He...
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New Stokke Xplory Car Seat Adaptor

See? Everything you wish for in the baby gear industry will turn up, it just takes two years. The folks as Stokke are introducing car seat adaptors for the Xplory. There'll be both Graco and Peg Perego adapters for the...
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Sweet Vintage Creative Playthings Cloth Cubes

Fredun Shapur's [1] sweet graphics are reason enough to get these vintage Creative Playthings Cloth Cubes. The fact that they're in good, playable condition and come with the original box, too, is just gravy. Of course, before you let...
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