the yip-yips do not cause childhood obesity
Posted on July 31, 2008 - Filed Under kiddo life | Leave a Comment
[rant on/]
Here’s a fun game for you:
First, put a kid in a school desk for seven hours a day, plus an hour or so sitting on a bus, and then throw in another couple of hours of sitting down to do homework. Do that for five days a week.
Next, design all public spaces so that [...]
living the tie-dyed life
Posted on July 30, 2008 - Filed Under making things | Leave a Comment
I am a tie-dye queen. Sometimes I look down and realize the whole troupe of us (me and the kids, Paul wouldn’t wear tie-die as it would interfere with his olive-on-olive look) is wearing tie-dye. It’s really bad if we all happen to put on stuff from a period of me trying to use up [...]
Read More..>>writing vs. writing
Posted on July 25, 2008 - Filed Under writing | 1 Comment
I have been totally into my new novel lately. I’ve been at this whole noveling thing long enough now to know that these periods come and go. The best thing to do when the muse is in the saddle is to let her do her thing: get as much work down as possible while the [...]
Read More..>>I can’t resist another one
Posted on July 23, 2008 - Filed Under kiddo life | Leave a Comment
Luc, laying on the floor in a rather formal posture, says, “I’m pretending I’m dead.”
Me: “Oh, interesting. What is it like?”
Luc: “I’m turning into dirt.”
Me: “Huh. What’s that feel like?”
Luc thinks about it. “Dirty.”
sophie’s anatomy class
Posted on July 22, 2008 - Filed Under kiddo life | 1 Comment
I love listening to the kids play. They come up with the most amazing stuff. RIght now Sophie is making complex pirate costumes for both of them, all with construction paper and yards and yards of tape.
A lot of the time they play around themes, for example, last week I hurt my knee and so [...]
Read More..>>great guinea massacre III
Posted on July 18, 2008 - Filed Under honeymilk farm | Leave a Comment
Oh, man, today we lost four of our five guineas. Poor things! And the poor single guinea left, traumatized and alone, keeps making her fear-peep out there in her violated guinea pen. Hard to say what it was that got them, but the chickens had scattered–two taking up residence inside the goat yard and two [...]
Read More..>>screen time for fun and profit
Posted on July 17, 2008 - Filed Under geeklife, kiddo life | 3 Comments
Kids and computers are an incredible combination. I remember the old Commodore 64 I had when I was a kid–I was just fascinated by it, and used to type in these pages and pages of number code to get some clunky, worthless game, and I just adored it. Remember those commercials with Bach Invention No. [...]
Read More..>>a good weekend was had by all
Posted on July 14, 2008 - Filed Under alternative building, honeymilk farm, kiddo life | 1 Comment
Here is a shot that Sophie got of me going about my Honeymilk Farm chores this morning. I look really sleepy. She said I should put it on the blog, though, so I am. I love how her photos are from such a different perspective (three feet off the ground). Often when she takes pictures [...]
Read More..>>ask a stupid question…
Posted on July 11, 2008 - Filed Under kiddo life | 1 Comment
Luc, 2 years old, says, “Mom, I want to wash my hands. They are covered in spit.”
Me: “Ewwww. How did that happen?”
“I spit on them.” And he gives me this very patient look, like I am lovable, but regrettably slow. He’s probably right….
why does writing inspire so much more ambition than other hobbies?
Posted on July 11, 2008 - Filed Under writing | Leave a Comment
I just love this quote:
What I find interesting is how many people think the only reason to write is to be published, and that publication legitimizes ones efforts somehow. Is there any other endeavor that carries such a load of assumptions?
Most of the people who run marathons know they aren’t going to come anywhere close [...]
