(One view from the walk)
As some of you know, I lost my stepfather this year to cancer. I also lost my grandmother 8 years ago to cancer on the day my son was born. For that reason, the past 3 years I’ve been doing the Chicago Walk and Roll 5 mile walk in their honor. [...]

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(Remember when we used to do stuff together? Before you got all big-headed?)
Dear Homeschooling,
You’ve been good to us. So accommodating and thought provoking and full of surprises. Remember the fire ants in the kitchen? Or the water wheel we made that one time? Ooh, ooh, how about when we hatched praying mantis babies, [...]

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(Some earth I recently sprawled on to appreciate earth more.)
This year I’ve been getting much braver about botany. I am on a one woman mission to increase foliage and especially food producing foliage in and near my house. I am not against feeding and supporting the species who would like to keep my foliage free [...]

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You know what’s weird? When your family is seperated in to 3 different time zones for a few days. Then you decide, yeah, we humans obviously are weird. In addition to creating extra time zones, we also have such complex lives that we have to turn off the fight or flight type instinct [...]

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Anoif’s girl scout leader is a lovely brave woman who is taking them all to Canada next week. In preparation, she’s decided to make identity cards for all of these homeschooled girls and asked that we all email her the name of our homeschool. This has caused a small kerfuffle over here. Because 7 [...]

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(The mid-day TV-sloucher as frightening blue guy. Well, you can’t really see too well what I mean by blue, so here…)

There was a bit of resistance in the air this morning. Okay, every morning there is a debate about exactly what will get done by whom and how unfair it is largely because one’s sibling [...]

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My friend Bryan sent me this video today. Apparently this was what the future looked like back in the 60’s according to the Montreal Expo folks, more of which can be seen at the Expolounge. The whole thing is so close to the truth that is seems like it has to be an elaborate hoax. [...]

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Have barely set foot indoors this week, let alone near a computer. But I had a few minutes to pop in and say hey. I’ll be back when it rains to read the blogosphere.
Weekend meandering:
More forays in to breadmaking. This time without a bread machine and with Anoif’s willing help. It was onion cheese and [...]

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Caution: If you are not yet feeling spring madness (ie, for me at least, the creative urge to make stuff happen) then you might find this post kind of boring.
Or in other words, the way I feel today is best expressed by an introduction to a chapter written by Barbara Kingsolver in her latest book [...]

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