Sorry I'm Not From Around Here Section :: Page 5

• BLOG – Two Years

  By Lauren ShowsAugust 29, 2012

  

  Wherein I talk about how my kid’s got kind of a ‘tude these days.

• BLOG – Where the meteors shower

  By Lauren ShowsAugust 5, 2012

  

  The highly prolific Perseids meteor shower will be most visible Aug. 11-13. And other, less scientific observations.

• BLOG — My two dads

  By Lauren ShowsJune 17, 2012

  

  I can only faithfully record my observations on dads and their doings through my experience with the two closest fathers of my acquaintance.

• BLOG – The Hunt

  By Lauren ShowsApril 9, 2012

  

  On Saturday, we took our 19-month-old, Lucy, to her first ever egg hunt.

• BLOG – Don’t get around much anymore

  By Lauren ShowsMarch 21, 2012

  

  Things weren’t always this way between us. When I first saw Lando in the summer of 2007, I knew we were meant to be together.

• BLOG – Baby nerds

  By Lauren ShowsFebruary 9, 2012

  

  Getting parents together is a lot like holding a baby convention. We are nerds for our babies.

• BLOG – Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra

  By Lauren ShowsJanuary 19, 2012

  

  Basically, nobody understands anybody, not really. We’re all thrown together and expected to figure out what’s going on in somebody else’s head, just by the words that they employ. It isn’t until you really need to understand or be understood that you realize that words are paltry tools.

• BLOG – Christmas! Now with Sound Blaster!

  By Lauren ShowsDecember 20, 2011

  

  I can never apologize to my parents for all the household items I destroyed over the years. More importantly, I can’t really say how sorry I am for all the sassy looks, and even sassier words, with which I have presented them. And which, if I’m honest, I continue to present.

• BLOG – The apprentice

  By Lauren ShowsNovember 10, 2011

  

  Musings about my toddler’s role at the News office. And some gratuitous baby pictures.

• BLOG – Happy Halloween, everybody

  By Lauren ShowsOctober 24, 2011

  

  When I was a kid, Halloween was a holiday that could not make up its mind: there were ghost stories, which introduced us to the dark mystery, the tingling awe and fear of things unseen, the whisper of the possibility of life after death. There was also the jubilant promise of candy, one unbridled night […]