A Natural Scientist

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...

I live somewhere poor and rural - except for the city, which is full of very rich Mountain U. students and faculty.  I'm a frugal housew...

This past February, we decided we were moving.  We started packing up and getting ready to sell our house and move almost a thousand miles. ...

You will be shocked to hear that I am still having FEEEEELINGS. Invariable, when I meet new people here, they ask where I moved from.  ...

Somehow, now that my child-swap/ Tatoe napping while Bug is at school are no longer in effect, I find myself unable to focus.  I wonder why...

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

1) Bug's feelings, as far as I can tell, break down into two categories: a) Get me away from my little brother and b) dude, where are al...

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...

Just to mention that not everything is full of woe: Yesterday, while Tatoe was napping, Bug and I went outside and threw paper airplanes i...

Much like all spouses or partners, mine drives me completely up the wall sometimes.  For example... now. I am leaving in nine days.  Of AL...

When in grad school, we would occasionally hear a particular kind of East Coaster- you know the kind  - complain about job offers in such hi...

'The only bad thing about Cold Utopia,' they said to us before we came, 'is that the traffic is really bad at rush hour.' I ...

We have just spoken with our car insurance company. They propose to charge us the princely sum of $10/month for basic auto insurance, or 1/...

Look, kids! Stupid people still think vaccines cause autism! And their kids are getting a serious, potentially fatal, sends-you-to-hospit...

Packing: still boring. Belle has been giving us her charming company and help, though. It eases the pain. Also: still not done. Experimen...

Yesterday, I did the Last Experiment. Again. (I also did it last week, the week before that, the week before that ...) And! It's rea...

I inherited a ThingPlayer from M & B. It came with about 60 pounds of obsolete Things. No-one makes these Things or their player any m...