Steve and I often plot our future trek through Europe with the boys. I would love to go to Basque country just for the food. Garlic and tomato rubbed on bread is so damn good.

We, as a family, are bereft of executive skills. Yesterday, I left my purse in a restaurant and showed up late an hour and 20 minutes late to a kiddie birthday party. While it's cool that schools are teaching kids to become more organized and better planners, this pre-school sounds like a disaster. No one education philosophy should ever take over a school. I also don't want to see a world of tidy, organized bores.

No college president should make $500,000 and get a mansion.

Roomba art.

Thanks to the charter school system, we've been able to measure that a longer school year increases school performance. However, most kids only get 180 days of instruction in the US, while the children in Japan and Germany spend 240 days in a classroom. Obama is now speaking up in favor of increasing the year.