How I Came To Be Crowned Chili Queen Simone Friday, February 11, 2011 It started with that trip through the bean aisle of Hyvee, when I picked up two 30 oz. cans of chil… Read more
The Physics Of A Falling Coffee Cup Simone Thursday, February 10, 2011 On Tuesday this incredible thing happened at work. I didn't think such a thing was possible. T… Read more
Live-Blogging the Blizzard of 2011 - LATE NIGHT UPDATE Simone Wednesday, February 02, 2011 1:22 am: Trying to write, but can't keep eyes open. Must make long journey to bed. The snow ha… Read more
Live-Blogging the Blizzard of 2011 --UPDATED Simone Tuesday, February 01, 2011 5:00: The kids spread the joyous news throughout the house that their school is also cancelled for … Read more
Live-Blogging The Blizzard of 2011 Simone Tuesday, February 01, 2011 The riveting blow-by-blow account...... 4:13 am: Too sleepy to look out window and see what it'… Read more
Moon Joy Copy that. During the Artemis 2 mission I was glued to NASA’s livestream from launch to splashdown. It was fascinating … Keep reading
I Pay Homage to Fools The merry band cavorting across this album cover were actually the creators responsible for much of the psychedelic ima… Keep reading
The Street That Plows Forgot This week the weather is reasonable, you can sit down and have a conversation with it. The snow dumped along the should… Keep reading
Next To Godliness My sister asked about dry cleaning the other day. She wanted to know what really happens to your clothes at the dry cle… Keep reading
So that didn't work so well... So much for NaNoWriMo. If you go to a victory party, don't look for me. I didn't even break 5,000. But few th… Keep reading
How come their street got plowed and ours didn't? This is reminiscent of the winter of 2011, when I wrote a tongue-in-cheek gripe about the plows forgetting us that got… Keep reading