Earlier this week, I wrote about the trouble in identifying and recording a baby’s firsts.  As much as I watch Jacob, I don’t have my eye or a video camera on him all day, every day (although some days, when he spends a long time playing in his crib after a nap, doing things like […]

When Jacob was a little boy–okay, when Jacob was a littler boy–John was all about getting a handheld video camera.  I was on board, but not as stoked as he was.  I know I look back at photos, but I wasn’t sure I’d look back at videos, and I thought we might just eat up […]

Sometimes I think that I was born in the wrong decade.  The clothing styles and music trends of my parents’ generation appeal to me in a way that those of my own just—don’t.  Some of it is certainly idealizing the past (a past I admittedly did not experience) and romanticizing a different time.  But some […]