A Natural Scientist

Dear Readers, the spouse has taken the children off for a week (a week !) with his terrible family.*  My dad came over for a few days, we m...

In response to The Grumpies' encouragement, here is how we scrimped and saved  out of Dr. S's postdoc income ($42,000 per year, bef...

Space OUT major projects, events, and un-reschedulable-stuff.*   For example , it was not the best idea ever to a) sign a house-buying contr...

... that arranging-things details are spilling out of my ears. I was, at one time, able to a) run my own multi-year, multi-project researc...

My house, you guys?  It just got sold.  I mean, contingent on all those fun things like financing and appraisal and inspection.  But still. ...

I had a great idea- in fact, I remember writing it in my head last night as I fell asleep- but I cannot remember a single word of it.  Inste...

I have five minutes with two hands!  GO!! Inspired by Alyssa and others: Housework with a working partner and a housewife!! Before we h...

Now with completely incidental re-coloring so I could fix my HTML code!  Anyhow. 1) Pregnancy.  Ouch.  Whomp whomp.  Ouch. 2) Thomas the...

Courtesy of the local fire department, we have a sealed, ten-year smoke detector in each room. Last night, one (only one!) started beeping ...

When I was angry and bitter, a couple years ago, I was a much more entertaining writer. Family and home renovation and teething are not espe...

I am off to the ancestral* Gloomy ** homeland tomorrow for a two-week stint with the parents. Dr. S is staying behind to tile our kitchen. ...

... that a tricycle, being caught on one's garage door, will cause catastrophic failure! ... that to put the door back in, you have to t...

Is this thing on ? Will my child ever stop boob-napping? Will we ever get the kitchen painted? Are all the EARWIGS dead? Do I love this rug ...

My basement, like many basements - especially basements in houses that have sat empty for a year - suffers from infestations. (If I should ...

It's been two months since I said farewell to my fancy job. I don't want to go back. Not even a little. (I also didn't miss s...

We do, in fact, take a lot of walks. I have all kinds of fun things to tell you about: temptations to canicide, the previous owners' not...