So. Being that I’m the parent of two 13-year-olds, we’ve been experiencing a lot of teen angst around here. Usually every summer follows a similar pattern: we’re all sick of each other by June, but we have lots of fun and togetherness (and some time apart) and we’re back to loving each other by September [...]

I’ve had the “add new post” window open on my laptop for two days now. I stare at the blank screen, unsure of what to type exactly. I want to tell you about our latest homeschooling…..mess. But it’s messy. I don’t even know how this is all going to turn out, and I’m not sure [...]

We’ve had a surprising number of groups of Canada Geese flying overhead the past few days and boy are they noisy. It’s amazing how much honking they do as they fly. Conventional wisdom is that they’re encouraging the leader to keep going. Just for kicks I looked it up, and found this at the Birder’s [...]

photo credit: Bo2007 1. Inform him that he needs all that negative stuff drained out and to be filled with happy thoughts instead. Suggest something he’d be appalled by, like painting pink daisies on his toenails. 2. Imitate the whining he’s doing and morph it into the whine of a race car. Rev the engine [...]

This little episode happened last spring. I ran across the pictures when I was going through my files and thought I’d share it with you, Internets. It was a lovely warm spring day. The rain had ended and there was a perfect puddle waiting at the end of the driveway for Captain Earthquake and The [...]

Joe at Fathered Five tagged me for a meme about my book-reading habits. I’ve been avoiding putting the truth down in writing here at the blog, but it has to come out sometime. I haven’t read a book in at least a year. There. I said it. Okay well, I wrote it. Either way, it’s [...]