Monthly Archives: March 2008

26 Mar

Artemis Playing

This clip is a little old, but due to recent events in China, YouTube was blocked from access by mainlanders. The internet is a political vehicle. Our body politic soils herself.
17 Mar

Artemis at Eight Months

Artemis started crawling over the weekend. It didn’t happen all at once, of course. She has been working up to crawling over the last couple of weeks. She would get up on her hands and knees and then try to lean forward. Then she learned to make little hops. Then […]
11 Mar

All right, Mr. Rogge, I’m ready for my close-up

Last week we took a weekend trip to Beijing. Artemis spent her first night in a hotel, which did not go as well as we had hoped. We had a standard room, as a opposed to a suite, with a crib set up in the corner. Artemis had to go to sleep […]
06 Mar

MSG - The Reason Asian Food Is Good

Today’s NYT doesn’t do enough debunking, but it’s good to see MSG get some positive spin its way. Cooks around the world have remained dedicated to MSG, even though they may not know it by that name. As hydrolyzed soy protein or autolyzed yeast, it adds flavor to the canned chicken broth and to the packs […]