If the mom your gifting is a total nerd, and doesn’t mind that you only spent $12.50 on her MD gift. Click on the pic for more info. [Source:Something to Say]

a yearlong diary in three-line poems by Jeff Rogers, day 238 Hadley Bat Mitzvah Morning-After Gaggle of girls runs down hotel hallway yelling and laughing, leaping to touch the ceiling. We take Gaku & Aki for typical American breakfast: eggs, sausage, potatoes, pancakes, Mammoth portions. They snap Japanese iPhone shots of all the plates ranged [...]

Wax Tailor featuring Charlie Winston, a guy that looks and sounds like a deeper version of Justin Timberlake. Also, the video’s quite nerdy. Which I like. [Source: LikeCool] Wax Tailor feat. Charlie Winston ” I Own You” from SoLab on Vimeo.

. a blogumn by Elise Rodriguez I was at a loss this month to come up with a bit of alternative medicinal knowledge when this hangover cure discovered the light of day while I was looking through my notes from at least 10 years ago for something else. It was given to me by my [...]

This Saturday, by husband will don a pair of swim trunks and take our daughter to her first swim class, and so the real teaching begins. All of my adult life, I’ve thought about lessons I’d like to pass down to my children: The Golden Rule, Respecting Money vs. Loving or Hating Money, How To [...]

Alright, proving that we’ve got a readership of Disney nerds, not only did angela from Texas guess correctly that Friday’s lyric was from “Kiss the Girl” as sung by Sebastian in The Little Mermaid, but DebraB from “Two Cats and a Baby” guessed correctly that last weeks Hidden Theme was DISNEY. That means you get [...]

a yearlong diary in three-line poems by Jeff Rogers, day 237 Hadley Bat Mitzvah After-Party Downtown East Lansing Marriott, klezmer band, cream of Haslett Middle School jostles for Snow globe photos with Hadley. Adult side: Maya recalls Detroit’s years-gone great days, Ice cream downtown — though in nearby Dearborn, to be black after dark meant [...]

a yearlong diary in three-line poems by Jeff Rogers, day 236 Her Voice (Hadley in Her Bat Mitzvah) The notes in her high sweet voice, light and feathery, Singing torah and haftorah, blessings and teachings of her tradition, Dance like particles in a beam of sunlight.

a yearlong diary in three-line poems by Jeff Rogers, day 236 Deep Traveling Four years ago this week I traveled to Michigan for my mom’s death. Now I travel there for my niece Hadley’s bat mitzvah. Where and when I mourned I now celebrate.

A few programming notes: next Monday-Thursday we’re going to have a full edition of Fierce and Nerdy, but starting next Friday we’ll be on Spring Break due to the fact that I’ll be in another country and don’t know what kind of internet coverage I’ll have. That means this is the last Procrastinate on This! [...]