Category: family
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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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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,…
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Children’s Book Recommendations
Timely for Christmas, timeless for other events. Let me put the following list in some context. You’re seeing the cleaned up version of two long-running conversations from a closed group for children’s book recommendations. This is something we seem to do on a regular basis, so I grabbed it, took names and identifiers off, and…
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Women and Children First
Tradition dictates that when a ship is sinking, women and children are the first to go into the lifeboats. Men and the crew stay with the ship if there is not enough room. Honor and duty, and a generation of manners we are fast forgetting. But what if there are no lifeboats? And just who…
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Saturday Link Round-Up
Ride on, cowgirl… I’ll start it off with a little piece of tech that flew by on my fb timeline, and caught my eye. This little drone fits in the palm of your hand, and can capture HD video. The start of the art tech, and this is by no means alone, scanning the related…
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Artfully: Day 4
On the fourth day of Christmas, I gave to my true love: five dogs, and a cat. I’m sketching dogs for my son, who wants me to illustrate a story he’s trying to write, about five dogs who are in fifth grade together, a cat who is their friend against the odds, and another dog…
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The Impermanence of Memory
Memories are forever… only they aren’t. There is a reason eyewitness testimony is considered highly unreliable. The processing of memories is a complex thing, and something poorly understood. Most people know there are two kinds of memory, short-term and long-term. What you may not know is that each time you pull up a long-term memory…
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On the Road Again
I head for home about noon. I’m torn… I miss the kids, although they seem to be doing well here. This has never been an easy thing to do, and telling all of us it’s only two more years isn’t easy, either. But we have skype and phone and emails… and I’m not going to…
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Adventure Time
As some of you might have figured out from my books and biography, I like adventures. I grew up reading about them, with L’Amour and Kjelgaard, Farley, Terhune, ERB, and many more that are slipping my mind at the moment. Between adventures in Oregon with my Grandmother and family, in Alaska growing up, and even…