Saturday, we will be celebrating B’s birthday with a gaggle of children and beloved family members. We will be playing, we will be laughing, we will be decorating cupcakes, we will be eating burgers fresh off the grill (and plenty of potato chips, too, after Wednesday’s chip-buying orgy of awesomeness). We are not opening birthday [...]
I regularly lecture to my kids. Every mother does, I think. The lectures don’t last long most of the time — some are barely more than a second. They are meant to teach, but often annoy, these lectures of mine. And I have always suspected that my lectures, long and short, and roundly ignored. If [...]
I posted this video last year for Remembrance Day, and on this day a year later, I can find no better way to express my thoughts. So without further ado, I give you last year’s post anew. Today, we are observing two minutes of silence here in our nation’s capital. This morning, we will be downtown at the [...]
If you’ve been reading for any length of time, you know that we have a serious love affair going on with the natural world around us. We love the garden, both floral and vegetable. We love the bog in all its ancient glory. We love birds, both domestic and wild. We love the woods and [...]
It never fails to astound me how a garden that is little more than bare ground and withered brown sticks in March can become so lush and full of colour by June. It also never fails to sadden me when, as summer progresses, blooms fade and wither and are done for the year. There are [...]
Something small and lovely and thought-provoking for your Friday morning. Well worth the click.
The Maker Faire was a fascinating field trip for a whole variety of reasons. We saw so many things, so many artists, so many inventors… it was really great to see so many people who were so absolutely passionate about their creations. Passion is contagious after all, and when you spend half a day wandering [...]
~ A little thing to share, to start your friday morning with a sigh of pleasure, or just a smile. ~ Oh, how I wish I had a daycare like this one when I was young!
~ A little thing to share, to start your friday morning with a sigh of pleasure, or just a smile. ~ An infinite photo. Click to follow the link, then click in the image to see what it is made up of. Click as many times as you like. From National Geographic. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/02/pictures/110223-tropical-island-biodiversity-infinite-photo-moorea-biocode
This afternoon, a tired young man stood in the rain outside the school and waited for his little sister to appear. He waited patiently at first, and then less so, and then not so much patiently as with a rather soggy feeling of annoyance at his sister’s failure to appear. Eventually, it dawned on him [...]
