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Though at times the effort of bathing both children in tandem (micro is still too young to share a bath with his sister — or, perhaps, I am still too terrified to embark on it) is daunting, I have come to deeply appreciate the ritual now that I have re-situated it in the middle of the day, just after lunch. A small blessing afforded by quarantine: getting the bath out of the way and passing the stretch of the afternoon during which midday doldrums normally strike in relative peace and calm. Once convinced to actually get in the bath, mini...

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Nora is joining us today from Queens, New York where she was born and raised. She and her husband both grew up there and they are now raising their two small kids in an apartment that they renovated together a few years back. Nora and her family are living in one of the hotspots of the current pandemic and, like most of us, have had to adapt to a new way of living. She shares some wonderful thoughts and advice about how to make things work with two small kids and two parents trying to get their jobs done in...

By the 1939-40 season, the pattern which had been established within the previous two years had become standard at Termite Terrace. There would be somewhere between a dozen and 16 black and white Looney Tunes, and between two dozen and 30 Merrie Melodies in color. What’s more, the use of Warner songs in the cartoons became more sophisticated. Action and gags no longer had to stop cold for music, and Carl Stalling more consistently used numbers as leitmotifs in a more natural manner to establish character or mood. Porky’s Hotel (9/2/39) – Porky is trying to run a hotel at...

We'd spent a few hours at the beach during our Spring break trip to San Diego when the weather turned and we decided to pack it up and head out. I juggled sandy beach toys and wet towels in my arms and attempted to convince my 2-and-a-half-year-old that it was a good idea to leave the endless playground that is the beach while my husband followed behind with the folding chairs and our crying 4-month-old. As we trudged through the sand, I noticed an older man look at us and heard him comment sweetly to his wife: "Those were the...