(Spinners at the Construction Craft Fair yesterday. You can see their stuff at Spinundrum.etsy.com or here.)
Joined Ravelry for real. Was inspired to write this intro which I crosspost here. I guess it is weird that I am on there before Jove who is a truly seasoned knitter. While I’m on the topic, podcasts have been [...]

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(Alright fellow nature geeks, time to go birding or geocaching!)
My brown manila envelope arrived today, much to my delight. Instead of pulling out a laughably thin laptop (see story below)* I pulled out something much more low tech and satisfying. A clutch of notebooks that could weather this spring and summer with me and the [...]

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Some days are just meant to be taken over by a creative wind. Today was one of those days.The kids lept out of bed and instantly started making stuff, so I went with it. The first projects were entirely their own. Mail made his gromit hand armor shown here. Maybe we should call the [...]

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I didn’t get up at 4am to go buy stuff. It won’t be hard for me to buy nada today since I am already somewhat broke. But I find the whole concept fascinating. Listened to a story on Democracy Now while we were cooking T-day dinner yesterday about the What Would Jesus Buy? documentary [...]

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(We call him ‘Leather Pants Poi Guy’)
The back-to-homeschool flutter is starting again. Each year it manifests itself around the back-to-school flutter, which isn’t strictly necessary. Every year I try to resist the angst, the excitement, the promise of new adventures, the fear of untold car mileage, but I am helpless to the general hubbub and [...]

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(Historic, educational, liberating, familial ties to really good hops.)
Chore Wars has been getting a lot of press lately, but this isn’t just a mention. This is a testimony. Ken found out about it via Boing Boing (which used to be an awesome zine back in the day and is now an awesome blog) or [...]

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Okay, wow. Now it is time to go vote for your favorite blogs over at Homeschool Blog Awards. I believe you can only vote once per category, so pick your faves carefully. I am pleased to announce that I have been nominated in two categories for Relaxed Homeskool, for Best Homeschool Mom Blog and also [...]

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(There are many ways to celebrate Turn Off the TV Week, April 23rd-29th.)
A friend recently posted this link to a yahoo list I’m on of Sir Ken Robinson, in which he gives  a lecture, part stand-up comedy and part earth-moving on how our current education system squelches creativity and ways in which we might instead [...]

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(Obliging the photographer)
Did you know you can see your own DNA using basically just kitchen ingredients to do so? This is one science experiment no kid could resist. You can extract DNA from plants this way too, substituting the cheek swab for some other scraping of course.
Looking at our own DNA has shown us [...]

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Alright bloggers. I have nominated ya’s. The clock is ticking. I’m not sure if and when we’ll get to see who is nominated by whom, but once the voting starts all will be revealed. Especially enjoyed the minty fresh new website they put together for the event.
Why is it 2006 awards? Because it is [...]

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