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I bought some reusable grocery bags while checking out at the supermarket the other day.  I don’t know why it’s taken us so long to get some.  The number of plastic bags we bring home from the grocery store each week (and then shove under the sink to be recycled later) always horrifies me.  So I’m feeling good that we’ve now finally taken the plunge and are cutting off a big source of our “transitory plastic.”

The only problem is, it’s not easy to remember to take the reusable bags into the store before you start shopping.  So you (or maybe just I) find yourself in line with a cart full of groceries and the realization that you’re sans-bags. And I’m ashamed to say I usually don’t get out of line in these cases.  I doubt others do either. Consumer habits are very hard to break.

An idea: Environmental groups ought to give stores free signs that they can put up in their parking lots to remind customers to bring their reusable bags into the stores with them.

What? Al Pacino and Robert De Niro are going to be face to face in a movie again for the first time since Heat?  And the movie’s coming out next month?  Why didn’t anyone tell me this?

Too bad I can’t say the word “righteous” with a straight face.

When the boy yawns, it’s contagious (as to be expected.)  Yet, he himself seems impervious to anyone else’s yawns.

When he wakes, he stretches his arms above his head like I do.  But it’s doubtful he’s ever seen an adult wake up and stretch (especially given his limited eyesight.)

He has known how to pout from day one.

If you’re looking to scare a couple of new parents, refer to the bump on their kid’s head as “a hematoma caused by shearing of the skull during delivery.”  Then shrug and say, “That’ll go away.”

If we were stranded together on a desert island, and we were trying to decide who stays and who gets eaten based on the useful skills we each might be able to provide the group, my skill would be the ability to repair a fence.  You know, in case we need to keep the Others out.