A Natural Scientist

Dear Readers, there have been THINGS going on. (I have three small children.  There are always THINGS, frankly.) I weaned Sweetpea two m...

.. .hand, foot, and mouth. Do you know what's tomorrow?  The last class.   No really, this time IS the last one. If I'm still d...

Have a blocked milk duct.  Cry.  Give the baby a bottle every day.  Baby eventually eats less and less from bottle. Taper off due to lazines...

Once, I was at LLL and we were talking about how we felt about nursing.  Predictably, there was one Amber Necklace Nut  who affirmed that it...

A friend asked me this week if it really matters if other people delay vaccinating their children.  As long as their child has received at l...

 A very long summary of how I came to give my baby (some, as it happens, as opposed to all) formula; with FEEELINGS My students' late...

Living in a very (VERY) small town means it takes me five minutes to get to work. It also means that ten minutes before I am standing befo...

We all survived the wedding.  And I totally got bingo.  Also, I seem to have run right out of patience with how poorly my mother deals wit...

An unfortunate encounter with a new-faculty-spouse-in-town reminded me that   I have a reflexive revulsion for persons too stupid or irrespo...

I am full of thoughts but never have any time to type on a real computer and  between the tiny touch screen keyboard and the inconsistently ...

Have you ever noticed that the more children you have, the more travel becomes like unto packing up a circus, tent and all?  I think we migh...

Our otherwise very good family doctor said to give "limited" amounts of nuts to the baby before age one.  Well, I'd already gi...

Dr. S is at a conference... for a week.  Naturally, I went and stayed with my mama for three days. Also naturally, my children didn't ge...

I'm sorry.  I'm especially sorry if you had non-baby children while I had a baby.  Like all people with their first child, I was cra...

With regard to my feelings of trapped misery , I have to say that gardening helps.  On good days, when Bug isn't home and Sweetpea conse...

Dear readers, I would like to solicit book recommendations. I read voraciously and fast, to the tune of 300 books a year (I spend a lot of t...

One of my huge sources of frustration with.... everything... is the current complete lack of time/opportunity to do all the things that make...

It's surprisingly hard to produce readable English on a tablet.  But, you know, I need to write to retain my sanity.  So forgive us our ...

1.  I finally worked through my guilt and reluctance and worry over giving Sweet pea formula, mixed her up a nice warm bottle... and she spa...

Following Bunny's excellent example, I present to you: Reasons I Am Depressed.  If you don't want to hear a lot of whining, go read ...