Posting hiatus

I’m rather somewhat very extremely completely busy just lately, so if you see me posting here it’s because I’m procrastinating something else taking a little break. (Which will be awesome if it happens.) I expect to be back to a normal posting frequency (whatever that means) in about 2 weeks. Don’t worry, [...]

A young master

My editor blog collaborator brother just posted a new piece on his website (click here) that I think is an excellent, fun, clever piece of writing.
(Just thought I’d point the way there in case there’s maybe one person out there who reads this blog and not that one.)

Penny pinching

Rose, spotting a ten-dollar-bill on the desk: “Look, a penny! Can I have it?”

Not just useful for Thanksgiving Dinner

The sixth comment on this post just reminded me of this story:
Back in our Berkeley days, we used to make the 40-minute drive up to Pinole to get groceries, since they had a Food 4 Less and a Target and an In ‘n’ Out and other chain stores Berkeley lacked. Because of its being [...]

Boys and their toys, a/k/a if you don’t already believe that getting a trampoline is the best thing you can ever do for your children, this might convince you

Back in his Berkeley days, Dean once contrived to use a VERY expensive camera belonging to the University that could take slow-motion movies (he used it to film water rocketry experiments — nothing to do with his PhD subject.) Ever since he heard that a consumer-level camera’s now available that can film in slow [...]

It all makes sense if you’re four

Rose: “Mom, I’m hungry. I still want some fruits and some vegetables.”
Me: “You want some lunch?”
Rose: [Knowing that lunch normally precedes a nap,]  “No, I just want a snack. I just want two Red Vines. Can you get me two Red Vines, please?

The Case of the Handkerchief

This is Isaac’s school assignment that I just finished helping him type (he can type, but he’d spent so long writing it out by hand that I wanted to hasten his finishing it so he could go to bed.) The assignment was to write a mystery that contained these elements:

Professor Quimby
Michelle King (I assume [...]

Visionary

I’m so used to finding out I’ve got some new chronic health problem every time I even get within any vicinity of a medical professional that I nearly always have high blood pressure at the start of any exam, from dread. We’ll be going out of town in June and my driver’s license will [...]

It’s all about Henry

And Henry is all about the shoes:

Game boys:

Before we know it, he’ll be hiding under the covers to read with a flashlight:

If you are wondering whether we have ever captured a photo of Henry sans binky, the short answer is, “No.”  I think we would have to be more stealthy wildlife photographers for that, and [...]

Mind meanderings

After locking my keys in my car a couple of times several years ago, I developed the habit of always checking that my keys are in my hand or my purse before closing the locked car door, and I’m a bit obsessive about it; sometimes I’ll check twice or even three times to be sure. [...]