old kid lit and YA lit is so sketchy with the racism. I have old copies of Arabian Knights and then some Kipling. Since I am reading some of the classic stuff to mac, I do on the fly translations so he can understand the story, but also to take out all the bad guy = negro or African stuff. I'm getting rid of the books as I finish them.

Isn't milk-soaked bread the secret to good meatloaf and meatballs? Although like Jesse I tend to think a good burger is nothing but meat, salt, and heat.

With my mom's it's chopped onions and Heinz 57. I don't know if she actually uses any bread in it or not.

I reread a Perry Mason book the other day that had some appalling moments with a Chinese character. I don't think I can keep it.

I had to google Trixie Belden. I guess I filled that niche with the Bobbsey Twins

It's much more dangerous to be whacked in the back of the head. That's where the autonomic functions (breathing etc.) are controlled.

Thanks, yeah, I knew that. Hence the worrying all afternoon. But he's just fine.

What I meant about the lumps is I'm not sure if a bonk on the back of the head makes a big lump the way a bonk on the forehead does. All my childhood goose eggs were on my temples.

My meatloaf is complex. The beef meatloaf has oatmeal, catsup,eggs, onions, mushroom, Worcestershire sauce, salt, and pepper. The pork meatloaf tastes like Chinese pork dumplings.

Hamburgers are much simpler w. sauce and onions.

I spent about 6 weeks reading newbery books. A lot of them are racist. But they are of their time. and some of it, I didn't see as a kid. One of the more popular honor books , I am sorry I read as an adult. I know why kids love it , but it is sexist. ( mr. Popper's penguins)

What I meant about the lumps is I'm not sure if a bonk on the back of the head makes a big lump the way a bonk on the forehead does. All my childhood goose eggs were on my temples.

Sorry, I skipped over. Kids do get goose eggs on top or on the back of their head but they're just less noticeable than a huge, bruised forehead bonk. They seem to go down more quickly though they're still tender.

Oh, dear lord. "Gronk" doesn't cut it this morning.

I was so spoiled with the Cambridge campus, which while it is in a strip shopping center, is right next to a Whole Foods and fast food and Starbucks, and this being NE, a Dunkin' Donuts. The Woburn campus, however, where I spend most of my time these days, is in a lonely and deserted at night/weekends industrial park, so the vending machines have a more captive audience.

I still can't wrap my head around eating a vending machine cheeseburger, though. ::shudders::

Ah, Cherry Ames. I still have about twenty of those books. I love them so.