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Horton Hears a Who!

Rants 29 June 2010 | 0 Comments

Matilda loves Horton Hears a Who. We bought the audio book to listen to in the car and she nearly has it memorized. If you don’t know the story, its about Horton the elephant who has great hearing and is able to detect a world of people living on a dust speck. He protects them [...]

Princesses

Rants 17 June 2010 | 4 Comments

Matilda was introduced to Disney princesses when she was 20 months old by her older cousin. At the time, she was fascinated by the dolls and later the dresses. I decided that I would not fight back against it and let her have her princess dolls, sheets, and books. After all, I liked princesses back [...]

Cost of health-care (part 2)

Rants,Uncategorized 4 May 2010 | 0 Comments

I read a great article in the New York Times yesterday that addresses my previous blog post. From: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/04/health/04cost.html May 3, 2010 Teaching Physicians the Price of Care By SUSAN OKIE When Dr. Ryan Thompson, an internist, was a medical resident at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston a few years ago, he worried that he [...]

Circumscision

Rants 20 February 2009 | 1 Comment

Wow, our doula, who is now training to become a midwife posted a really interesting blog post on circumcision. Circumcision as we understand it today originated when God commanded that Hebrews were the chosen people and that circumcision was to be performed on male babies as part of agreeing to such a covenant. Today, circumcision [...]

Social Networking — gnashing of teeth

Rants 26 January 2009 | 1 Comment

Our company, Hanee Designs, is all about usability. We try really hard to put ourselves in the shoes of a website visitor to create an easy to use, deceptively simple interface for all websites, small and large. Usually, our vision is modified by the client which can compromise usability.. but I like to think that [...]