A Natural Scientist

Since I was last extremely irritated on the subject of the division of spousal labor: I asked the spouse to take Child #1 to his yearly c...

I recently applied for a job Assessing Things. I was quite well qualified, but they didn't bother to interview me. (I guess that they ha...

Dear Self In Twenty Years, Don't do this.  Don't do any of this. Love, Me. HOW TO ALIENATE AND ANNOY PEOPLE IN TEN EASY STEPS...

Working only once a week is a little surreal.  Three hours a week I am a dressed-up professional and the rest of the time I am a nursing ...

Bad Weddings Bingo! Bride cries Inappropriate toasts Drunk uncle Three people who aren't on speaking terms You wish something woul...

Sweetpea is napping by herself!  Once a day.  Of course, in trade, she's up every 2.5 hours all night like clockwork. Oh, babies. ...

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...

Dr. S:  "There's something we need to talk about..... but I don't know if now's a good time?" Me: "What, about t...

For the last several weeks I've been having all kinds of weird food reactions.  It's miserable and aversive to be in pain every tim...

Sad.  Maybe lonely.  Also out of processing cycles due to scheduling and arranging and managing and making sure there's something for di...

1) It was our birthday.  (The spouse, my sister Pru, and I all share a birthday.) My family brought cake and the dog.  The next weekend we l...

Dear Readers, Dr. S wishes to put an end to the Annual Christmas Argument.  He proposes that he take the boys, and *not* me, up there every ...

In grad school, I was EIC for a small journal.  (Before that, I was on the editorial board for a couple years.)  This involved reading hundr...

I did not do my spouse bodily harm.  I did toss the children at him Monday evening and go to the gym.  When I came home they were still sh...

"Bug is being pretty intolerable." "Can you just be more patient with him?" "Can I lock myself in a closet instea...

No, really, it's going to be really long. Okay.  So I grew up in a moderately rural area of this fine state - gravel road, nearest gro...

Fifteen years ago, I packed too much stuff into a tiny clown car and my dad drove me up to Ohio. Eleven years ago, I drove a moving van u...

The people here , that Belle and I tried to set up?  They're getting MARRIED!  In AUGUST! (!!!!!!) (In all honesty, it's not lik...

Lately I was thinking about people who say they aren't going to get married until their gay friends can.  (Ordinary people, not wealthy ...

I have probably never told you fine readers about the dude I dated in college.  (Wait!  I did mention the aftermath!   Here is a very depres...