Same author, tommyrot.

When sophie gets angry-really really angry by molly Bang is really good, too,msbelle.

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The New York Times profiles Nate Silver!

I heard most of the TAL. Really beautiful stuff. My grandfather in TX was in school during the Depression and he road the rails during summer school breaks looking for work. Hobo! He evidently wrote about it all in a letter to my brother that must be in my parents' house somewhere. I need to get my dad to find it.

I just arranged petsitting so I can go to the midwest for Christmas. Now I just need to tell my Mom I'm not going to be home for it. I think she'll be okay as she's a big fan of my boyfriend but it will be weird. First time I won't be home for xmas since I lived in SF in the early 90s.

Irish Setter Pups!

I think I've decided to board my cat over Christmas -- I'm going to be home longer than I usually go, and maybe living at the vet's for a while, they'll figure out why he's so crazy!

God is angry that we're not sufficiently hard-line when it comes to Israel, so he sent hurricane Rita.

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I love the farmer who is absolutely sure that tornadoes did not destroy his house, because he prayed and "Jesus heard me."

msbelle, I'm gonna second Beth's rec (if you were looking for one) of the Molly Bang book. It doesn't really have major coping techniques but it's a good book for kids who are dealing with anger. And for parents to talk about it. And I love Molly Bang in general who spoke to one of my classes about her work and art work and she's amazing so I try to always pimp her work.

My fave is the book, Delphine which is fantabulous.

Sophie might be a little young, but it's still a good one for E.

On Molly Bang's web page, she lists even more anger books: [link]

I am not sure mac would get into a book about a girl - he is very into gender identity right now. The other book which we have used is "Taking the GRRR out of Anger". It is a little above his level, but he loved it.

ION - I have been on and off working on a database project since Jan. Low urgency - medium importance, just found out that the stand alone software I was told to use by my predecessor is not something anyone else in the company uses AND that there is another tool people use and that I should have been using. With the other tool, the entry of data would be done by someone else. GRRR!

Kat, insent.