The Quirky Professor
What’s the quirkiest thing you’ve ever seen a teacher do? This month, I began co-teaching a class at Georgetown, as an Adjunct Professor in their School of Continuing Education. It’s the first formal...
View ArticleThe Cherry Blossom Death March
A few days ago, Jennifer said to me, “I don’t know how to tell this story without making us look like idiots.” And we’ve been wrestling with that for almost a month now. I think the honest answer is...
View ArticleSatan Causes Ichthyosis?
We spent a lot of time in a hotel swimming pool in Washington DC this past weekend. Oddly, this particular pool had lifeguards. Cookie, Kitty and Monkey arrived with me early Saturday morning, right...
View ArticleMegan vs. Doorknobs; Rachel vs. Glasses
Megan has started blogging and her first post, Me Against the World, and by World, I Mean Doorknobs, is an awesome piece of writing. Check it out if you haven’t seen it already. (I’ll wait. ) I’ve...
View ArticleSpontaneous Combustion of Aquaphor-Laden Laundry
Today our friend Chandra Rogers shares her tale of laundry woe. Chandra has a form of ARCI, and her laundry incident happened in 2005, but we think it’s important to share since so many of us use...
View ArticleAquaphor: Waistband Killer
Our recent discussions about Aquaphor and laundry (and other problems with Aquaphor and laundry) got our friend Sarah thinking about some of her own laundry-related woes. Sarah’s son has a form of...
View ArticleA Skin Cancer Scare
Cookie has had a little white scar thingy on his hip for several years. It wasn’t really remarkable, except that my kids almost never scar. He had probably bumped into a table or something long since...
View ArticleIchthyosis and School: Hawaii
When Cookie started kindergarten,* we ran into a problem that may families with ichthyosis have experienced — some of his classmates started picking on him because of his skin. Two kids from his class...
View ArticleIchthyosis and School: Air Horn Reveille
School started yesterday. School, for us, starts at 7:40 in the morning. This creates a bit of a problem for our family, since we need to get all three boys bathed and out the door before daylight. The...
View ArticlePlayground Trauma
So…. we are eight weeks into school. Three of my kids have teachers new to both the school and the district, so we had to go through the whole spiel back on Meet the Teacher night. The oldest one is...
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