Daily Life

What Drops on New Years Eve

For the past two years, I have compiled posts (2006 [http://digitalpapercuts.blogspot.com/2005/12/what-else-drops-in-other-places.htm] , 2007 [http://digitalpapercuts.blogspot.com/2006/12/what-else-drops-update.html]) with a list of interesting or

Holiday Card Friendship

I have some friends that I keep in touch with only through holiday cards. And that’s not even necessarily ones who send holiday letters. It may be a picture of the kids,

How Popular am I?

The US Social Security Administration has an online tool [http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/] to check the popularity of names based on United States births. The first thing I checked was how

Mid- to Post-Hoilday Wrap-Up

Here are the last few things about Christmas before we move on: Peter and Grace Christmas Morning After prying the kids away from their handheld video games, and pausing the DVD player, I

Only US-Made Toys for Jack and Emma

from WRAL (AP) [http://wral.com/news/state/story/2209702/]: > The wife of Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards said she had a hard time tracking down gifts made in the U.S.