When my son was 2, he used to play with dolls. Now at 5, he wouldn’t be caught anywhere near one. I never discouraged him to stop playing with dolls – in fact, I prefer them to the superhero action figures – but somewhere along the line, he got the message somewhere that only girls play with dolls/Virginia de Leon, Are We There Yet? More here.

• Linger Longer Lounge full of Spirit Lake characters (scroll)/Amateur Malcontent
• Open letter to the guy selling snowmobiles/Scurvy Jake's Pirate Blog
• 'Candidates' for WSU basketball coach/Just South of North
• 29 & hanging on by my fingernails/Nuts & Nonsense
• 2 AM/Synaptic Disunion
• Much more below

Question: Did your sons play with dolls?

• A Word A Day: lucubrate/Community Comment
• Facial hair: New recession index/Everyday Economy
• Spring cleaning Day One/Gathering Around The Table
• My Lenten toe/Korrektiv
• Beating the Bushies to investigate war crimes/James McPherson
• Spokane's snowiest winter/Pajamahadin
• Pullman Chamber of Commerce quote of the day/Red County
• Everything in your RV weighs something/RV Wheel Life
• Saving local investigative journalism/Still A Newspaperman
• Taste everything once?/Spokane Food Blog
• View from flyover country/That Got My Goat
• Once in a blue moon/Note from the 'Kan EWA
• Oh, sweet irony/Vox Box

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