Dispatches from a happy Hullian

The kids are getting more cuddly with us — we had five in the bed around 7 AM yesterday — and perhaps a little more fighty with each other. They're also getting more interested in school-type things, including Ada, for whom Elizabeth printed off some alphabet activity sheets so she wouldn't feel left out.

Speaking of not being left out, we're anticipating a big delivery of maple products from a sugarbush in L'Ange-Gardien. Review perhaps to follow! We'll miss our annual trip West of Ottawa but we'll make do.

There's an Andrew Coyne piece on how this doesn't change everything which brings by own thinking into focus. This won't automatically change everything, but we should be paying attention and ready to point to some of the innovations and habits we develop and demand that they become the long-term normal: income support, new notions of who's essential, more support for telework. Don't waste a crisis, as Naomi Klein might say.

In personal finance land, ( investment ramblings… maybe only asimplelife will read this ) The short of it is… we're lucky to be stable money-wise and I'm trying to be calm and smart about it.

…ESPECIALLY the ones that barfed on me.

The flip-side is when fun, happy woodgie is our fault*, too.

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*and I know fun woodgie can result from many different relationship structures!

Math is fundamentalism for the sane.

Well, and the more-or-less sane.

Always speak from an abstract that speaks to your heart.

Don’t let people introducing you say too much.

Modularize.