Monthly Archives: May 2008

11 May

A Mother’s Proclamation

Today is Mothers’ Day, my first as an actual mom. Last year I was pregnant on Mothers’ Day, which doesn’t really count.
An astonishing number of my friends have had babies in the past year. Ladies, you know who you are, and I hope you are enjoying this special day with your little baby [...]

03 May

Just Because Part Two


02 May

China! China! China! China Starts with “C”…

Via Yahoo, The Wall Street Journal offers a case study destined for Intro to Marketing textbooks. It’s a fluff piece for the Brilliance of Culturally-Conscious Marketing. Pbbbfffttt!
So in China in 2006 Kraft remade the Oreo itself, introducing for the first time an Oreo that looked almost nothing like the original.
It’s as if I’m supposed [...]

02 May

Next Year in Philadelphia

Another Passover in China has come and gone. Once again, we baked our own matzoh. Once again, we ground it to make matzoh ball soup. We slightly abbreviated our seder so that Artemis could get to sleep on time. We ended with a promise that we would spend next year in [...]