Taught Ray how to elicit toots from a bottle today. As always, the experience of successfully teaching something comes to me as a miracle: I say stuff, and suddenly the light goes on, but the connection between the two isn’t as straight a line as the ego would like. She did the work. I just […]

Lee has spent a considerable (and considerate) amount of time setting up the computer IN MY OFFICE for me. AHAHAHAHAHA! I can’t tell you how good this feels, how nerve-wrackingly good. I had been trying to pick out the perfect desk, but I abandoned that plan in favor of a cheap-ass-but-for-all-practical-purposes-perfect desk. The room is

First of all, I’ve been trying to figure out whether I should call this the “Hispanic” or “Mexican” grocery store project. It would be more PC but less accurate to call it “Hispanic,” as the grocery stores to not appear to cater to wider, pan-Hispanic tastes. Here’s the deal. During January-February, I worked on getting

I send hugs to the gay couples I knew in Iowa. Hopefully this helps with the adoption situation, too. A couple I knew had started proceedings to adopt a little boy they had fostered, but he was taken away when the social agency found out they were gay and wanted to adopt instead of just

I had two readers for Alien Blue in the ABNA contest. Unfortunately, I didn’t make it to semi-finals, but I did get these two reviews back, see? And while semi-finals were announced March 15th, the reviews just came back today. Understandable; the staff needed to sleep for two weeks, and April 1st would have been

Now I have to wonder if “The Princess and the Pea” is about kids with allergies.

Make that three times I’ve been pranked today. I’d forgotten which of Ray’s baby teeth had come out and which hadn’t; the tooth I thought was a chipped baby tooth was an adult tooth coming in at an off-kilter but perfectly acceptable angle. Silly me; she chipped a different tooth while trying to pry a

After years of running with a perfect April Fool’s Day record, I have been caught TWICE today. TWICE!

Scientists have created a black that is blacker than black. Enormous fish-women swim closer through the stars.

Carol at Alinea at Home GOT HIRED BY GRANT ACHATZ! To work at Alinea! How cool is that? Food blogger makes good 🙂