Tag: Featured

  • Attention Grabbers

    Attention Grabbers

    It’s been one of those days. For one thing, I usually try to post in the morning. Well, for one reason or another I didn’t get to it, and about mid-morning my day started to act like a pack of toddlers. You know what I mean, if you have spent any time around small children.…

  • Math is Art

    Math is Art

    I’ve always found something strangely fascinating about those blackboards or whiteboards with huge incomprehensible equations scrawled across them… But I have to face that although I passed calculus, it was by the skin of my teeth. I can catch glimpses of the beautiful, elegant thing that math is, like looking through curtains out into a…

  • The Wood Guy

    The Wood Guy

    When we moved out into the country and into a rental, it was during a relatively mild November. One of the things about this house we were told early on, and made us happy, is that it had a dual furnace system. A propane furnace for backup, and an “Energystar efficient” wood furnace. Because of…

  • I’m here

    I’m here

    I’m just writing. I took the time this weekend to read back through and create a ‘bible’ of this work in progress, as I’ll be writing the final part this week, and needed to be sure I was tying up some loose ends, and reprising others to set the whole series up. Once that was…

  • And the Other Thing

    And the Other Thing

    This and that… One of the perks of teaching a teen home ec. in homeschooling is that I get to eat waffles for breakfast, and I didn’t have to cook them. Buttermilk waffles from scratch, mmmm. While I’m eating these delicious fluffy things, I’m also taking a break from cleaning house. It’s not bad, but…

  • Heigh ho, Heigh Ho

    Heigh ho, Heigh Ho

    Oh, wait, wrong dwarves. I woke up this morning to my mother having shared this medley of Tolkein songs, performed acapella, and, well, it’s fun! But before that, my husband invited me to sit outside in the pre-dawn dark with him. Ohio being Ohio, it’s currently in the mid-60s, rainy, and positively balmy out there.…

  • How To Blog

    How To Blog

    Well, first, you have to write something. No, wait, first, you have to pick a platform. No, wait… I have been doing this for eleven years now. At first, I was doing one thing, and then I was doing another, and now? I’m doing something else, with touches of the first thing and the second…

  • Print Happy

    Print Happy

    So this is a very late post. However, I have a good excuse. See, this morning I decided that since I have the new printer, ink, more ink, good paper (I mean really good paper. Beautiful, velvety, archival-quality paper. I’m trying not to drool on it, it’s so delicious), and everything all plugged in, installed,…

  • Quitting Time

    Quitting Time

    This is a follow-up to a post I wrote last week, at the Mad Genius Club. In it, I talked about how I’d learned to quit books. It’s not that I’m quitting reading, oh, no. What I did was learn how to put a bad book down instead of letting it suck part of my…

  • Time Wasters

    I’m supposed to be writing. I’m wanting to write. I am trying to write… Oh, who am I kidding. I’m avoiding writing like it’s the pneumonic plague. So far this morning I’ve cleaned the living room, complete with rearranging furniture and setting up the Homeschool Desk (this needed to be done, yes, but…). I’ve started…

  • Hot Soft Pretzels

    Hot Soft Pretzels

    The other day the First Reader had mentioned pretzels. And he wasn’t talking about the hard ones I buy in bulk for kid snacks. I knew what he meant… the warm, soft, delicious things that most people associate with overpriced mall vendors of dubious origin. I’ve made soft pretzels before, and they aren’t difficult to…

  • Just Weeds

    Just Weeds

    I did something yesterday I haven’t done in years. It’s a thing I’ve done since I was a teen, but since the move to Ohio, I haven’t had the room. Some habits, though, just don’t die. I picked weeds for the table. See, the Otaku Princess gave me a vase for Christmas. She thought it…