Seven Angels, Four Kids, One Family
Sometimes sarcasm is the only sane response
Do all your Christmas shopping right here, on this weblog. No, really! Do you have relatives who read? If so, buy them a copy of my book, Seven Archangels: Annihilation. Does anyone on your gift list exist in time and…
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I’m watching a psychology lecture unfold in my own household. Harriet Lerner in her amazing book The Dance of Anger describes the move-countermove dance. Briefly, if you take a step to change your life, the ones you love will be…
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I’m thankful that my baby totally looks like Tintin. . Now get the heck off the internet and go enjoy Thanksgiving Day, okay? 🙂
A Thanksgiving Meal tradition in my family, which I’ve never seen elsewhere, is what we call “antipasto.” I’ve seen antipasto in other places, but it’s not the same thing we prepare. Oh, those strange divergent Napolitani… Â Our “pizzelles” aren’t the…
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My Patient Husband, the inveterate dyed-in-the-wool geek that he is, grabbed the Bible Of Computing in order to look up a bit about recursive functions. If you’ve never been to our house, you don’t know that sometimes he and I…
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The internet has changed how people learn. I’ve been realizing that lately as I read about marketing, branding, and how to make people want your product. One article stated flat-out, “You cannot run a successful weblog and not have your…
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The scarf-for-me was made with Noro Blossom which I purchased on clearance. I had two additional skeins which I decided to turn into a hat (which was, to be fair, what Ivy told me to do with the original ones…
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Right after I finished that beaded scarf in March, I cast on a beaded hat, using a modified sock pattern and much prettier beads than I’d used the first time. (You can click on most pictures to see them bigger.)…
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Kiddo#2: See, it’s on a hook? Kiddo#1: Why do we have a white hook in brown wood? Me: That’s how they did it in House Beautiful. Patient Husband, choking on his coffee: They do not! Me: Well, House Beautiful’s been…
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Someone passed along a link stating that girls manifest Asperger’s syndrome differently than boys do. This may in part account for the ten to one ratio of boys to girls who are diagnosed with it. I’m interested because I have…
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