question - silk worm deaths vs. oil industry

Is it better for silk worms to be boiled alive so that silk fabric can be made (possibly by child labor), or for synthetic fabric to be made from petroleum?

Shaking my world

Are any of the rest of you dooce.com readers? Are any of you as sad about Heather and Jon separating as I am?

I caved

So you can find me on facebook now.
Still, I plan to keep the blog alive, if nothing else to report on the "best" of my student answers.
"Friend" me if you want to.

Book suggestions?

Hi friends, I hope that you are having a wonderful holiday season! I am looking for book suggestions-- I recently finished reading the Harry Potter books to my grandmother and she really loved them. Now I am looking for a new book or book series to read to her. She really seems to enjoy mysteries, detective stories, and history, but I'm open to most anything so long as it isn't too violent or R-rated. Any suggestions?

Birthday Week

Once again, it is the week (basically) when Irene, Jennifer and Jenny all age one year. As usual, it is also the week of Thanksgiving and a week that I will forget them if I don't post all at once.
Happy Birthday ladies! May you have (or I hope you had) a fantastic day followed by a fabulous year.

Breaking radio silence to be gauche!

Hello knitters...

It's good to drop in on the blog now and see you all again, familiar from knitting of yore, yet with new lives and families sprouting up. I'm doing well and loving being a mom (most of the time).

OK -- that's the breaking radio silence part... now for the gauche part -- I have a request.

I'm tutoring now and don't have the recent edition of Campbell, which I would find very helpful. Before I shell out $150 for it I thought I'd ask if any of you with real jobs might have an extra desk copy I could beg, borrow, or -- well, not steal! If not, I'll think about whether to remain 2 editions behind or shell out the big bucks!

Here's a recent pic of Andrew. We're not making it out to Lawrence this winter but hope to again next summer.

three of my favorite things

This clip combines three of my favorite things - Kingdom Animalia, Betty White, and the song Africa.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4hvZkBpUJs

(How does one make a youtube video show in a post?)

I'm off to Haiti on Sunday. I'll post an update from there.

PS - Check this out about a prof here