Science Can Be Fun AND Easy! Simone Thursday, November 18, 2010 I always found textbook explanations for autumn's changes too hard and sciencey. I want someth… Read more
Julia, Slow Down! Simone Tuesday, November 16, 2010 One minute she's slipping the skins off the pearl onions, the next she's quartered the mush… Read more
Dr. Who Simone Thursday, November 11, 2010 I was reading in the latest issue of The Atlantic about the return of the British hit TV show "… Read more
Burn Barrel Simone Thursday, November 04, 2010 Holy smoke. This is the way I remember it. How ours looked, in the back yard, behind the elm tree, … Read more
Tubes And Transistors Vacuum tubes and transistors. On my mind tonight. They were made by the thousands, back when computers were babies. Wh… Keep reading
Lightning Field In reading about Walter De Maria's Lightning Field, installed in a remote desert area of southwestern New Mexico i… Keep reading
Red Letter Day Today that family pack of ground beef I bought expires, requiring me to tear it apart with my bare hands and put it int… Keep reading
Pumpkins in Waiting Their light still dim, but growing... You can tell it's early October. The pumpkins have not yet gathered their str… Keep reading
May-polles For most people the month of May brings to mind may baskets and flowers, Mother's Day...things we think of as swee… Keep reading
Bong Voyage So Olympic champion swimmer Michael Phelps was caught with a bong. Shame, shame. Let the flood of moral outrage begin.… Keep reading