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Category: childhood
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Blast from the Past: Sheer Twaddle
Originally posted in July 2013 When I first started writing stories for my children, my ex-husband looked at them and said “you’re using too many big words, you know.” Well, since I was told in highschool by my English teacher to stop using so many big words, this stung, and I started looking into how…
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Summer Fun with Science!
reblogged from Otherwhere Gazette This is the first of a series I will be doing this summer on fun activities for geeky kids and their parents. While some of what I will highlight will be specific to our area of Southern Ohio, you can readily find similar things local to you with a little google…
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The Rational, Thinking Woman
Guest post written by Lissa Hailey. Cedar: Lissa posted this on her facebook timeline and tagged me in it, then graciously allowed me to put it up here on my blog. I think it’s an excellent essay on the personal impact of feminism. As most of my readers know, I wasn’t raised in mainstream American…
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Gone Balloonin’
Sort of like Gone Fishin’ only with balloon sculpture. It’s fun, popular (yuk, yuk) and profitable. Back later with a food blog. Maybe. If the balloons don’t eat me.
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Blast from the Past: Intimacy for a Lifetime
This is at least two years old, the young lady who worried me so is now more than sixteen years of age. I still love her. I expect I always will. Pregnancy is possibly the most intimate encounter you can have with another person short of sexual relations. And even those aren’t always a metaphysical…
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Kids Review: Fever and Gilly Hopkins
So today my kids gave me some super short and fun book reviews. I’ve written them down almost verbatim for your enjoyment. We often talk about what they are reading, and why they enjoy it, or what they learned. I reminded the Jr. Mad Scientist that she has seen the graves of Yellow Fever victims…
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Lessons Learned
I don’t think anyone is ever quite ready to become a parent. We try, read all the books, game out the scenarios of what we’d do when confronted with a certain situation. But when it comes down to it, you need two things: a sense of discipline, and a sense of humor. I’m going to…
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10 Awesomely Geeky Hats You can Make
#geek #crochet #nerdcraft #ohmigod #totesadorb #hatpatterns #babygroot My regular readers will have already noted several oddities about this post. One, it’s not my usual format to make a list of ‘8 amazing…’ or ‘5 funny…’ because that’s not my style. However, last night I’d clicked on an article with great geeky patterns… for knitters. I…
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Surviving the Boston Museum of Science
This is a mother’s field guide to the Boston Museum of science, with survival tips and tricks, in no particular order: DO NOT go on a vacation week. It was beyond mobbed. Had I any idea, we would have gone somewhere else, but I have limited time here. Don’t forget to carry bottles of water…
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on the Road
No internet at our hotel… Will try to do a post later, hadn’t planned on being out of pocket this long!
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Hold My Beer and Watch This
There is some debate over what jobs men and women are best at. In the current cultural push to make women fit into slots previously held mostly by men, some inconvenient truths are overlooked, ignored, denied, and finally, outright lied about. Because the honest truth is that if we discard outliers on the data set,…