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Wednesday, January 11, 2006

novelty-- and children's theater -- improves the brain

I just signed the binding contract as a parent volunteer in the fifth grade production of Oliver at Joey's school. My inner sleeper cringed as I did so, since I do realize how much time this is going to take, supporting his thespian debut as the Artful Dodger. Yet I also do believe -- optimistically, maybe, even perversely, but with great underlying faith -- in a point I stress in The Mommy Brain; that jumping into this kind of new child-obliged experience, so foreign to my normal inclination, with new people, new pressures and new skills to learn, is just what the doctor should order. I'm about the most anxious person I know -- excepting just maybe one very good friend who reads this blog more than I write in it -- and left to my own devices, I'd probably spend the time worrying about the advent of "peak oil" ....

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