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Saturday, December 20, 2014 4:13:17 PM
Kelly Barnhill wrote a blog post titled I Never Understood Why My Mom Was Crazy During the Holidays Until I Became a Crazy Mom During the Holidays:
Kelly said, "Like many people, I do not choose to engage in the annual spending orgy of Black Friday, opting instead to celebrate Buy Nothing Day on the Friday after Thanksgiving. And I recommend it, really – spending the day going on a long, foresty..." more
Wednesday, December 10, 2014 12:24:05 PM
Kelly Barnhill wrote a blog post titled Happy Birthday Ada Lovelace, the Enchantress of Numbers:
Kelly said, "Oh, Ada! Poetical Scientist, Metaphysical Analyst and genius of Mathematical Arts. Mother of programmers. Midwife of computers everywhere. Daughter of a libertine poet and a self-centered socialite/ strict moralist (depending on the day), little..." more
Tuesday, December 9, 2014 9:53:41 AM
Kelly Barnhill wrote a blog post titled Items of note::
Kelly said, "Today, once I usher my children off to school (by car, by train, by school bus; but none, unfortunately, by flock of birds, which is a shame, because that would be a fine, fine way to go to school), I shall be initiating my trusty old Mac Freedom..." more
Monday, December 8, 2014 2:51:39 PM
Kelly Barnhill wrote a blog post titled Some Reasons Why I do This Job.:
Kelly said, "Look. This job is hard sometimes. Or maybe all the time. The crushing self-doubt. The fear of disappointing people. The yawning mouth of ambivalence, swallowing you whole. The financial worries. The lack of stability. The deadlines. The atrocious..." more
Sunday, December 7, 2014 2:07:37 PM
Kelly Barnhill wrote a blog post titled 3, 2, 1, LEGO!:
Kelly said, "It’s go time in Legosvile. I’ve been coaching the Magnum Mindstorms since the first week of school, and I love them all. They are all the most magnificent nerds. In the last ten minutes, the conversation has ranged from Minecraft to..." more
Friday, December 5, 2014 2:23:24 PM
Kelly Barnhill wrote a blog post titled The Hard Stuff – privilege, systemic racism, state-sanctioned violence, the subversive nature of hope, and how I talk about it with my kids.:
Kelly said, "Last week, I was talking to the boys in the Lego Robotics team that I’m coaching, and they brought up the heartbreakingly sad story of the twelve year old child in Cleveland who was shot by police. My team – all good boys, ages 10-12..." more
Friday, December 5, 2014 11:47:23 AM
Kelly Barnhill wrote a blog post titled In which I am a mama bear. With claws. And teeth.:
Kelly said, "I have been on the phone quite a bit so far today. I intend to be on the phone quite a bit for the near future. I’ve connected to the principal, the school office, the crime specialist at the police department, the Climate Coordinator for the..." more
Friday, December 5, 2014 11:47:23 AM
Kelly Barnhill wrote a blog post titled The Sock Crisis:
Kelly said, "There was a time, in the Land of Barnhill, when socks flowed in abundance. They heaped and flowered and multiplied. They scattered across the wide family room floor like so much snow. We were buried in socks, awash in socks. Our cup of socks raneth..." more
Friday, December 5, 2014 11:47:23 AM
Kelly Barnhill wrote a blog post titled Sometimes, only poetry can tell us how we feel.:
Kelly said, "Last weekend, an African-American child in Cleveland was shot by police because he had a toy gun. Today, a grand jury in Missouri denied justice to the family of Michael Brown. The stain of racism does not wash away. It reasserts itself on the..." more
Friday, December 5, 2014 11:47:23 AM
Kelly Barnhill wrote a blog post titled In Praise of the Activist, the Protester and the Provocateur.:
Kelly said, "This is my kid’s school, and somewhere, sitting in the hallways, is my daughter, in her own awakening to her particular place and power and impact in the context of a larger, broken and hurting world. I remember the first time I felt moved to..." more
Friday, December 5, 2014 11:47:23 AM
Kelly Barnhill wrote a blog post titled All Giraffes Are Blind. So Are Elephants.:
Kelly said, "Parenting, at its core, is the process of surrealistic integration and magical thinking. We don’t notice it after a while. We start to accept the odd logic in our kids’ thinking without questioning it. We accept that square ice cubes..." more
Friday, December 5, 2014 11:47:23 AM
Kelly Barnhill wrote a blog post titled No One Will Ever Love You as Much as This Dog Loves You.:
Kelly said, " Now, before I begin, and before any of you commence any kind of tear-eruptions, let me first just say that Harper, my one thousand year old dog, is perfectly fine. She’s old and creaky and slow and sleepy and arthritic and missing some..." more
Friday, December 5, 2014 11:47:23 AM
Kelly Barnhill wrote a blog post titled The Witch’s Boy by Kelly Barnhill – Review by Katherine Sokolowski:
Kelly said, "kellybarnhill:I <3 the Nerdy Book Club. And not just because they liked my book. And not just because I love nerds and I love books. And clubs. Though all are true. I love them for millions of reasons. Millions and millions and millions. Hooray..." more
Friday, December 5, 2014 11:47:22 AM
Kelly Barnhill wrote a blog post titled The Hard Stuff – privilege, systemic racism, state-sanctioned violence, the subversive nature of hope, and how I talk about it with my kids.:
Kelly said, "Last week, I was talking to the boys in the Lego Robotics team that I’m coaching, and they brought up the heartbreakingly sad story of the twelve year old child in Cleveland who was shot by police. My team – all good boys, ages 10-12..." more
Thursday, December 4, 2014 7:05:19 PM
Kelly Barnhill wrote a blog post titled The Witch’s Boy by Kelly Barnhill – Review by Katherine Sokolowski:
Kelly said, "kellybarnhill:I <3 the Nerdy Book Club. And not just because they liked my book. And not just because I love nerds and I love books. And clubs. Though all are true. I love them for millions of reasons. Millions and millions and millions. Hooray..." more
Thursday, December 4, 2014 9:41:19 AM
Kelly Barnhill wrote a blog post titled No One Will Ever Love You as Much as This Dog Loves You.:
Kelly said, " Now, before I begin, and before any of you commence any kind of tear-eruptions, let me first just say that Harper, my one thousand year old dog, is perfectly fine. She’s old and creaky and slow and sleepy and arthritic and missing some..." more
Wednesday, December 3, 2014 7:09:13 AM
Kelly Barnhill wrote a blog post titled All Giraffes Are Blind. So Are Elephants.:
Kelly said, "Parenting, at its core, is the process of surrealistic integration and magical thinking. We don’t notice it after a while. We start to accept the odd logic in our kids’ thinking without questioning it. We accept that square ice cubes..." more
Tuesday, November 25, 2014 12:04:42 PM
Kelly Barnhill wrote a blog post titled In Praise of the Activist, the Protester and the Provocateur.:
Kelly said, "This is my kid’s school, and somewhere, sitting in the hallways, is my daughter, in her own awakening to her particular place and power and impact in the context of a larger, broken and hurting world. I remember the first time I felt moved to..." more
Monday, November 24, 2014 10:48:41 PM
Kelly Barnhill wrote a blog post titled Sometimes, only poetry can tell us how we feel.:
Kelly said, "Last weekend, an African-American child in Cleveland was shot by police because he had a toy gun. Today, a grand jury in Missouri denied justice to the family of Michael Brown. The stain of racism does not wash away. It reasserts itself on the..." more
Thursday, November 20, 2014 8:24:21 AM
Kelly Barnhill wrote a blog post titled The Sock Crisis:
Kelly said, "There was a time, in the Land of Barnhill, when socks flowed in abundance. They heaped and flowered and multiplied. They scattered across the wide family room floor like so much snow. We were buried in socks, awash in socks. Our cup of socks raneth..." more
Wednesday, November 19, 2014 9:50:11 AM
Kelly Barnhill wrote a blog post titled In which I am a mama bear. With claws. And teeth.:
Kelly said, "I have been on the phone quite a bit so far today. I intend to be on the phone quite a bit for the near future. I’ve connected to the principal, the school office, the crime specialist at the police department, the Climate Coordinator for the..." more
Friday, November 14, 2014 3:31:03 PM
Kelly Barnhill wrote a blog post titled In Praise of Quietness.:
Kelly said, "(Everything on xkcd.com is brilliant and correct, but this one might be the most brilliant. And the most correct.) Like many of my friends of the writerly persuasion, I have a love/hate relationship with social media. I love how it connects me with..." more
Friday, November 14, 2014 10:09:05 AM
Kelly Barnhill wrote a blog post titled IT’S BOOKFEST DAY!:
Kelly said, "*runs down stairs in jammies* *looks under the bookshelf to see if the Bookfest Fairy has arrived* (not yet, my pretties, but soon) Today is the Twin Cities Book Festival, which is one of my top ten favorite things about living in the Twin Cities. I..." more
Friday, November 14, 2014 10:09:05 AM
Kelly Barnhill wrote a blog post titled Today! At Uncle Hugo’s!:
Kelly said, "The Will and Kelly show continues for one more day. I will be at Uncle Hugo’s Bookstore with the most esteemed William Alexander, and we will be signing books. 1:00. Be there or be some kind of quadrilateral. For the book lover, there really..." more
Friday, January 9, 2015 12:10:11 PM
Kelly Barnhill wrote a blog post titled 2014 in review:
Kelly said, "The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 37,000 times in 2014. If it were a concert at..." more