Science Can Be Fun AND Easy!
I always found textbook explanations for autumn's changes too hard and sciencey. I want someth…
Julia, Slow Down!
One minute she's slipping the skins off the pearl onions, the next she's quartered the mush…
Burn Barrel
Holy smoke. This is the way I remember it. How ours looked, in the back yard, behind the elm tree, …
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Oddly Correct
On Friday, Roger and I checked out a hole-in-the wall coffee place in Westport called "Oddly Correct."
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Meet My Christmas Peanuts
I have these peanut Christmas tree ornaments I rescued one year from a second-hand shop. They were somebody's aban…
Leaving on a midnight train
A week or so ago I was driving on a Saturday and this song came on the radio. And the next thing I knew I was gesticul…
Keeping The Elves At Bay
I was lousy at sending Christmas cards this year (I mean last year), and my gift-giving left something to be desired, b…
2011 Is Here And Waits For No One
It's only the 3rd. The year is so tender. Yet here we are, breaking it in. Everything gearing up, full steam ahead.…
The Physics Of A Falling Coffee Cup
On Tuesday this incredible thing happened at work. I didn't think such a thing was possible. The laws of falling bo…
