A Natural Scientist

Parenthood sure leaves me wondering what I'm doing a lot of the time.  Why do they fight?  Why won't they just go to sleep ?  Why mu...

... no time to think. This week and next week are Mommy Camp, i.e. I must entertain three children for about eleven hours a day. (If I do ...

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 have nothing interesting to tell you about so here: Health: still iffy but somewhat less so following some minor surgery and lots more d...

With respect to the previously mentioned diagram : I don't think one's job necessarily can or should fulfil all the desirable qualit...

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...

... in all the senses. My yard is still weedy.  The flowers are growing and are very pretty My job is still in limbo because Outgoing C...

Dear Readers, my course is over for the year and I am bored . You know what?  I don't really  value  stay-at-home-parenting.  It's...

( Wittering about my job, or lack thereof.) Two falls ago , the Other University  here had a sudden need for someone to teach four lab sec...

Put  the children down for nap/quiet time/mama needs a break. Realize that your meal plan says chicken and the chicken is frozen solid.  D...

Because practically anything is more convenient than therapy when you have three children and no childcare. 1) Money.  I would like more, ...

My older children are upstairs trying to murder each other and Sweetpea has taken to climbing on things and then walking off the edge .  So!...

HEADACHE: Mostly gone.  Hearing probably also 5% reduced, but I'll take that over a perpetual knife in the ear.  Let's say a 2. F@...

The other day I was thinking of my (8% of a) job and how I define myself.  Who am I anyways?  Who will I be once I'm not tied to the bab...

Lately, while nursing the baby (ENDLESSLY) I've been reading Captain Awkward and, aside from giving me a Serious Complex about my paren...

I feel there might be a less confusing way to phrase this sentence about a transgender teen:  "Ayden grew up a tomboy and in sixth grad...

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...

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 ...

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

I invited you to our baby playgroup out of kindness because I remember how hard and lonely it is to suddenly go from working full time to a ...