crafts for karma
Posted on September 25, 2008 - Filed Under kiddo life, making things | 2 Comments
Few things can teach patience–and I mean ‘teach’ in a Navy Seals Training Course kind of way–as doing a craft with a four year old and an almost three year old. Somehow (how do these things happen?) we acquired a Klutz book on making beaded bobby-pins and Sophie and I have been nose to the [...]
Read More..>>vampire middles
Posted on September 23, 2008 - Filed Under writing | 3 Comments
Boy, I either post on boards, or I do my blog thing, but I don’t seem to do both. I had a few days of interesting discussions in various forums and dropped off the blogosphere. The clamoring throng of my dozen of fans will be so disappointed. Sorry!
So, I’ve been watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer, [...]
sophie’s people
Posted on September 17, 2008 - Filed Under kiddo life, making things | 1 Comment
Sophie has been drawing lots and lots of people, oodles of them every day. It’s getting crowded in the yurt!
Don’t they look like people you’d like to meet?
Read More..>>butterfly house
Posted on September 13, 2008 - Filed Under adventures | 4 Comments
We went to the most amazing place yesterday! The butterfly house at a nearby museum. Feast your eyes on this:
This gorgeous creature had just hatched out of the cocoon it is clinging to. It is still inside a glass wall full of strings that have hatching cocoons attached to them. A butterfly nursery, I guess. [...]
Read More..>>i have seen the future
Posted on September 12, 2008 - Filed Under geeklife, kiddo life | Leave a Comment
Sophie, four and half, has taken over my ipod. Yes, I have an ipod, this old, 2nd gen, B & W, wood-burning thing. Anyway, I showed her once that music comes out of the funny things I was wearing in my ears, and she grokked the situation immediately and started asking to listen on her [...]
Read More..>>a thousand good reads
Posted on September 8, 2008 - Filed Under reviews | Leave a Comment
A recent conversation with some writerly folk yielded a plethora of fringe culture art references from steam punk, to webcomics, to you-name-it. As a result I ended up reading all 1000+ comics at Questionable Content.
I highly recommend–it’s like watching Friends only with grunge, swearing, and indie music references. Start with #1 so you get the [...]
Read More..>>questions to ponder…
Posted on September 2, 2008 - Filed Under kiddo life | 2 Comments
Mommy, can I have some matches?
Will you tie this around my neck?
How do you un-glue something?
Where is Daddy’s hammer?
We got three eggs! Oh. Two eggs.
How do you turn the hose off?
Mommy, will you put this sock on my willy?
