The Kid Learns The Lesson Of Bad Feng Shui

Yesterday/Friday, we shipped out of Kyoto and headed to Hong Kong for the weekend to visit some of the grandparents, who are here doing the expat banking thing. They live at The Four Seasons, which is known in Chinese as...
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Scary Russian Playgrounds

Surreal, inventive, kind of handmade, unacquainted with the details of corporate intellectual property licensing or liability insurance, these playgrounds represent the best aspects of the Russian children's spirit. And even though the scale model of the Kremlin has more...
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Midnight, And The Kiddies Are Sleeping

The New York Times reports that many very young children are attending Broadway theater shows: Kate’s first show was “Beauty and the Beast,” which she saw when she was 3. Ms. Gerathy admitted that 3 was young, but she wanted...
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Cars You Can't Have, Vol &c &c: Honda HR-V

The Honda HR-V was the first car I couldn't have I saw when we went out of the hotel in Kyoto. It's 2WD or AWD, and frankly, it sounds pretty straightforward and Civic-based, mechanically. But it looks a lot...
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