Yoon Ye Eun

I’ve been watching it for a week now, and I’m still having trouble coming up with the right words to describe little Ye Eun’s piano performance, so I’m going to ask you to watch it and describe it for me. I will say that this is not an annoying glitzy performance, and oh that song [...]

Vegetarian Rapper’s Delight

Saki is not the first vegetarian rapper out there, but I’m pretty sure she’s the most smilingest vegetarian rapper. Oooh she’s good. Family Tree. And she clearly got her skills from her dad. If you spent at least a few minutes trotting around the world in the 1990s, you’ll recognize his happy old school style. [...]

Hearing Voices

My new favorite big people’s podcast is called Hearing Voices, because it’s an hour of people’s stories. Identical to This American Life, Hearing Voices builds a bunch of stories around a theme. In fact, HV sometimes takes its stories from TAL. Stories also come from NPR’s This I Believe series, StoryCorps (fascinating project), and a [...]

Fear Factor Ego Boosting

Is it ever okay to lie to a child in order to boost her ego? I enormously praised a 6-year-old for speaking with a big voice in class, even though she hadn’t. Or at least not very much. But her mom, who hadn’t seen the lesson, also praised her enormously, and her own smile was [...]

Galloping Tortoises

I told a friend that I really want to start running again. Well, running…? A Galápagos tortoise could outrun me. My friend knows I love turtles, so he sent me this. Oh giggle.