Cartoon of the Week | 07/15/2009 9:20 am
Liza Donnelly's Cartoon of the Week: Making a Living
Liza Donnelly, noted cartoonist for The New Yorker, is also the editor, with her husband, Michael Maslin, of the book Cartoon Marriage: Adventures in Love and Matrimony by The New Yorker’s Cartooning Couple.
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- Dear Margo: When You Think You've Heard Everything ... You Haven't
- Dear Margo: When Dad/Gramps Just Ain't Interested
- What's your viewpoint on a one-term presidency for Obama, no matter the reason?
- Could Mammograms Fall Victim to Obamacare? by Liz Peek
- Liz Smith: In a Concert Hall Far, Far Away
- Liz Smith: Sharon Stone, Steve Tyrell, Sarah (You Know Who), Glamour, Lesley Gore – and More!
- Queen Martha, by Cynthia McFadden
- Did You Ever See a Book Cry? by Sheila Nevins
- LIZ SMITH FLASH! The Kennedy Conspiracy and the Mafia
- Remember shopping pre-Internet? What era/memory in the evolution of shopping do you think of most fondly?
- Dear Margo: When Dad/Gramps Just Ain't Interested
- Did You Ever See a Book Cry? by Sheila Nevins
- LIZ SMITH FLASH! The Kennedy Conspiracy and the Mafia
- Dear Margo: When You Think You've Heard Everything ... You Haven't
- Liz Smith: Sharon Stone, Steve Tyrell, Sarah (You Know Who), Glamour, Lesley Gore – and More!
- Liz Smith: In a Concert Hall Far, Far Away
- Joan Ganz Cooney Still Shops the Way She Always Has
- Joan Ganz Cooney Looks at Unemployment, Not War
- Let Down and Felt Up? by E.D. Hill
- The World in Vogue (Photos)
- What's your viewpoint on a one-term presidency for Obama, no matter the reason?
- Could Mammograms Fall Victim to Obamacare? by Liz Peek
- Dear Margo: When You Think You've Heard Everything ... You Haven't
- Dear Margo: When Dad/Gramps Just Ain't Interested
- Remember shopping pre-Internet? What era/memory in the evolution of shopping do you think of most fondly?
- Did You Ever See a Book Cry? by Sheila Nevins
- LIZ SMITH FLASH! The Kennedy Conspiracy and the Mafia
- The Love Goddess: In Sickness and in Health ... But Hold the Sickness
- Let Down and Felt Up? by E.D. Hill
- Queen Martha, by Cynthia McFadden
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Good one - I would consider a donation of ‘green’ for this one, forget the quarters!
The key to a successful summer for the kids is just the right amount of scheduled activity. My kids are no longer hanging around in the summer. They both work 40+ hours each week. It’s difficult to plan a time when we are all together now, but they are saving most of their pay so I am not complaining!
Oh, my, do I remember those days with my three children! Because I took issue with sending my three precious children off to a camp being cared for by "unknown" persons, I created our own camp during the summer. Fortunate enough to have an inground pool, I remember arranging for a swim instructor to come to my home to teach swimming and diving and invited all mothers to bring their children. It was huge fun. The mothers all brought a covered dish and I provided the drinks and ice cream bars! I scheduled science daycamp, tennis daycamp, art daycamp and long days sitting on the Chesapeake Bay under a beach umbrella and a cooler full of fruit, sandwiches and creme soda! By the end of every day, even the rainy days, we were all asleep by 8:00 p.m!
We had a lemonade stand quite a few summers at the end of our driveway. Soon, we will rekindle those memories with all of us congregating in a beach house only this time I’ll be buying the lemonade for 12!
Summer with family is so much fun even during periods of adjustment to our lifestyles.
Those sound like wonderful childhood summers for your kids. My kids each spent the summer in sailing lessons (1/2 day) once they turned 8. We would always go boating on the weekends and take a vacation on the boat for a week or so. Both kids became sailing instructors which is a fabulous summer job! In fact, next week while my daughter attends a volleyball camp with her school team, my son will go and fill in for her at the yacht club where she teaches.
Deber those sound like such wonderful memories for your children! Vacation at the beach! Enjoy! :)
Cute cartoon. Letting kids earn money teaches them responsibility and how to respect money. They have a better understanding that the thousands of dollars they’re constantly asking for does not grow on trees.
Have you every notice once kids start earning their own money they seem to hold onto it longer? They’re also very careful how they spend it.
TAKING THE SWEET WITH THE SOUR
Ben: So you think 75 cents is fair?
Sally: Fair? do you care?
Ben: I’m thinkin it may be too much.
Sally: Rubbish!
Ben: If nobody stops, we should lower the price.
Sally: That’s always been your problem–-you’re much too nice.
Ben: I just wanna make some money!
Sally: Just be patient, bees come to honey–eventually.
(After a few hours go by)
Ben: Oh, look, here comes a car…maybe it will stop.
Sally: Not. Oh, well, let’s lower the price.
Ben: But I though you said….to entice…
Sally: Just do it. Reality sets in sooner than expected, even we children understand that, for gosh sakes!
Ben: We’ll do whatever it takes!
POST SCRIPT: Lowering the price did the trick and most of the lemonade was sold by the end of the afternoon. Ben and Sally divided the money between them learning the lesson of salesmanship on a little corner in a little town that is going down the drain like most. Now if only the grownups can make something sweet from something sour.
Well Lisa, I guess they didn’t "sugar coat" their words eh?
Get it? Sugar - coat, as in lemonade? I was trying to be cute but I guess I’ll just shut up now…..ignore me. :-)