Lots of mockery about this Style Section article.
I love the guy who did the gardens for the High Line. I’m thinking about turning my front lawn into a meadow of ornamental grasses. I think my neighbors will love it.
Some day, I will return to Tangier.
I have to return to this article… “we found that most forms of parental involvement yielded no benefit to children’s test scores or grades, regardless of racial or ethnic background or socioeconomic standing.”
The New York Times discovered the adjunct problem.
Apt. 11d 
Oh dear God in heaven, that Style section article was marvelous, and the Jezebel piece was even better. Now why didn’t I think to name my children “Force” and “Olympia”? Didn’t you just want to strangle them both?
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I’m pretty sure the writer of the NYT piece is a Fifth Columnist working for some revolutionary group or another.
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“I’m thinking about turning my front lawn into a meadow of ornamental grasses. I think my neighbors will love it.”
I keep trying to convince my neighbors that the all crabgrass lawn is a winner – it doesn’t need fertilizing and is drought resistant – but they resist.
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When we rented a house in a neighborhood that was going to be bulldozed soon, we had a lot what I liked to describe as “hardy, drought resistant native ground cover,” i.e. weeds.
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Crabgrass would actually be an improvement right now. My “lawn” is currently nothing but clover and chickweed.
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You might like Prairie Restoration (http://www.prairieresto.com/). The person we bought the house from worked with them to develop a wonderful meadow. Meanwhile it’s not spring yet here so we don’t know what’s going to come up.
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If you haven’t found The Well-Dressed Toddler Pinterest board yet, highly recommend: http://www.pinterest.com/tiffanywbwg/my-imaginary-well-dressed-toddler-daughter/
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