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November 2016

November 21, 2016

Thanksgiving Week Snowy Podcast With Links

[Not a picture I took.] Gosh it's pretty out there, with our two feet of...

November 18, 2016

Seven Better Things to do than Read the News

A lifetime ago I enumerated a twenty better things to do than vote. Today, because...

November 12, 2016

Kitchen Notes from the Frontier of Babylon

[Glrorious Cloud photographed by Alouicious when he was supposed to be paying attention to his...

November 10, 2016

Disappointed? Join With Me For Cake

Ahh, the sweet smell of blame and recriminations in the morning. I think it was...

November 05, 2016

Autumn Notes on Home and Daylight Savings

I have got to plant out some bulbs today, even though it's probably late. I've...

October 2016

October 25, 2016

The Second Verse is Not Exactly the Same as the First

Well, you might have noticed the great tragedy of there being no podcast and links...

October 22, 2016

Autumnal Notes

For a while now that I've looked out my bedroom window it's been what I...

October 14, 2016

7 Autumnal Takes in which I Fuss over the Passing of Time

It's been a long week. Time for some Quick Takes. One I read this excellent...

October 07, 2016

A Further Response to Allison Benedikt

Not to keep bashing a perishing horse, but I wanted to tease out another thought...

October 06, 2016

A Response to Allison Benedikt

Someone named Allison Benedikt wrote what she calls a "manifesto" over at Slate and I...

September 2016

September 14, 2016

Wordy Wednesday: Flying Leaps

Is it already Wednesday? That means the piano teacher will be here in an hour...

September 07, 2016

7 Tips for a Tolerable Schoolroom

Don't let the map on the wall fool you. This room is Not Done. But...

September 06, 2016

Definitions: I Can Totally Multitask

Didn't realize it was a holiday yesterday until I pulled up into the empty Aldi...

September 02, 2016

7 More Homeschool Takes, No We Still Haven’t Started

One The children have started asking if we can start school. I am more than...

August 2016

August 26, 2016

7 Not Facing School Takes

One It's so interesting to feel the weather. Nobody, it appears, slept last night because...

August 16, 2016

Sight for the Depressed and Foolish

I appear to have been woken up early so that I can take a walk--an...

August 12, 2016

It’s the Fault of the Building

Was going to save this article for tomorrow, because it's exactly the sort of thing I...

August 06, 2016

Saturday on the Book Links

Podcast this morning--Anglican Update, what makes a good church versus a bad one, what are...

August 05, 2016

7QT: Rambling to the End of the Week

One So, I guess there are olympics this year? Probably not going to be watching...

August 04, 2016

The Well Intended Hosta

I halted all reasonable and normal activity yesterday to dig up one of the massive...

July 2016

July 29, 2016

7QT: Politics, Playgrounds and Procrastination

One Seems I hit a bit of a nerve yesterday, enumerating three small reasons not...

July 26, 2016

Mercy for the Rich and Poor

Well, it's a good thing I remembered that Romulus is ten today and therefore spent...

July 25, 2016

Monday will Probably be Better than Sunday

This is just so great. It's like a tinselly Christmas present at the end of...

July 20, 2016

Wordy Wednesday: House and Book

I've been surfing--well, that is entirely the wrong word--puddling round the Internet for an hour,...

July 18, 2016

Rest Awhile

This is about where I am as I consider the number of boxes before me...

July 14, 2016

Pokemon Go, Walmart, and a Muttering

Spent a significant portion of yesterday in the car, birthday shopping and shuttling people various...

July 08, 2016

7 Packing Political Takes

One Got through the living room and office yesterday just packing books. I'll just repeat...

July 07, 2016

The Life Changing Art of Packing Up

Well, I've done everything I can do to avoid packing. Today is the day to...

July 05, 2016

Notes from Home

Would you believe it. We totally lived through the last two weeks. I'm not exactly...

June 2016

June 15, 2016

If I Work Hard Enough I Win

I'm not ready to start thinking about work again, being only, strangely enough, in the...