For a long time, my sister Mary’s been telling me I would enjoy owning a Xyron machine, and I finally got myself a 9″ wide one a couple of months ago — and I have been having great fun with it, using it to make stickers for the kids in church Nursery, laminated bookmarks for [...]
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.)
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
This is Mabel’s new favorite craft, which in a way makes both of our lives miserable, since she always wants to do them, and I’m not in the mood nearly as often as she is, and I won’t let her use my fabric or my sewing machine (for gathering the skirts) without supervision, and she [...]
Dean got an idea yesterday and told the kids not to look while he worked on it. Mabel kept stealing clandestine glimpses of the computer screen and there was lots of suspense and drama. This morning Dean unveiled the finished project (the above image,) and, in an unexpected twist, Isaac hates it. [...]
Isaac had to make a doll-type thing to go with a book report; it was suggested he use a styrofoam ball on a pop bottle as a base. Yesterday after assembling the bottle and ball, Isaac was showing Dean the illustration on the book jacket, in particular the cap the boy is wearing in [...]
We were given this set by the Primary a couple years ago and I’m sure they got the idea from somewhere else (I’d give credit, but I just don’t know the original source.) They’re plastic Easter eggs with little props in them that go with scriptures. Some of the scriptures in our set [...]
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