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The Plug-In Drug
I’ve been making more of a point to read recently, and “The Plug-In Drug” happened to be the book of choice. I...
harp, 11 May 2011 |
Hawaii, Day 2
We slept well until 4:30 a.m. That sounds early, but it’s not unusual for us to start the day ony an hour later. Not...
A Souvenir for the Worms
I'm still working on Hawaii, Day 2, so today you get to see the souvenir we brought home—for the worms. It's billed as a...
Hawaii, Day 1
If a good neighbor is one who watches out for your home while you are gone, and a great neighbor takes care of your mail and pets (even...
Transglutaminase, aka Meat Glue
Here's a quick story for you while I work on the Hawaii posts. First the bad news. The report is from Australia, but the...
Water Rocket Launcher
This is the best thing to do with a soda bottle since Diet Coke and Mentos. The insructions are clear, and the cost of materials...
Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell
Outliers: The Story of Success , by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown & Co., New York, 2008) Malcolm Gladwell’s...
Climbing, Talking, Signing, House Broken?
Last Thursday Joseph turned ten months. I can’t decide if that’s long or short and I certainly can’t remember...
A Day in Emmen: Fighter Jets, Pool Accomplishments, and...
Some days everything seems to go wrong and other days everything seems to line up. Most days are a bit in between, but here is an...
Mini Update
The day after I blogged about how great ECing with Joseph is I missed nearly every one of his pees for two days. Things have been...
Sabbath, by Dan B. Allender
Sabbath , by Dan B. Allender (Thomas Nelson, Nashville, 2009) Mystical poets who enjoy attempting to express the inexpressible...
The Mother Tongue and Troublesome Words
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got that Way (first published 1991, reissued by Perennial 2001) and...
Easter's Coming
Ride on! ride on in majesty! Thy last and fiercest strife is nigh; the Father on his sapphire throne expects his own anointed...
Once More Unto the Breach
Music is such a personal, touchy subject—as is worship. Put them together and you might as well be mixing sulfur, charcoal,...
Phoebe's Quilt in the News
It's not the New York Times , or even the Hartfort Courant , but I'll thank the East Haddam-Haddam Patch for their article on the...
Phoebe's Quilt Wordle
I created a Wordle picture of all the surnames I have associated with the people who made Phoebe's Quilt : maiden and married...
Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra Concert - Classical Masters
Piazzolla: Tangazo Mozart: Sinfonia concertante in E-flat major, K. 297b Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F minor, op.36...
High Stakes Gambling
I should write about our Ireland trip, but I don’t want to think that hard, so I’ll use the captive audience to talk about...
The Olde Cup & Saucer
The Olde Cup & Saucer , Jamestown Place, Altamonte Springs, Florida This is for our friend, Nancy: I'm taking you to...
A TED Lecture by Neuroscientist Michael Merzenich
You may remember Michael Merzenich as one of the major researchers mentioned in The Brain that Changes Itself by Norman...
The Blueberry Cage
Not long after we moved to here, we planted a couple of blueberry bushes in the backyard. As with many of our Florida gardening...
Phoebe's Quilt, Second Edition
The project that consumed my life since mid-January has now reached—not completion, but a stopping point. Deadlines can...
Pee Diaries
You’ve been warned. Despite a rather long break from ECing with Joseph because of preparing for the move, moving and...
There's a Way Out of This Cave...I'll Find It Soon
Too many short nights. 'Way too many long days. I'm currently babysitting the printer as it struggles with the second...
Little Update
Things have been plenty busy around here with several trips to Basel for rehearsals and other commitments but it’s been...