I finished the baby quilt last Sunday and have finally got around to shooting and uploading photos. This is the fourth baby quilt I’ve made and the ninth quilt. I little thought when I made my first quilt back in 2003 that I’d soon be...
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The Dragon and the Phoenix blog has this awesome picture of a little fetal foot pressing through the skin of mom’s belly. I’ve seen others like it, little hands and feet. I’ve even heard tell of people seeing little faces pressed...
I’m currently about halfway through The Scientist in the Crib: Minds, Brains, and How Children Learn, a fascinating book. It’s quite hard to put down. This isn’t a review; I’ll probably write a wrap-up later once I’m...
A new meme: 1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open it to page 161. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the sentence along with these instructions. 5. Don’t search around and look for the coolest book you can find. Do what’s...
I’m in my 39th week of pregnancy. My belly is huge and taut like a drum. Though everyone who sees me says I don’t look that far along. Well, I feel that far along. When the baby moves… and she does it frequently, she has periods as...
by John Scalzi
Good advice. Put in a file folder to use if I ever teach composition again.
Grandma Millie at her 90th Birthday party. Grandma with a portrait of herself as a young lady, done by my talented brother, Tim. Grandma poses with the artist. Wow I really wish I could have been there. The idea for the portrait stroke of genius on...
I saw this at The Cafeteria is Closed website and it was so good I had to repost it for myself. I love our Holy Father and also think that, as erudite as he is, some of his best stuff is not his homilies or speeches but when he is speaking off the...
i had a dream last night in which I was at a reunion—or a shopping mall or both, you know how dreams are—and I kept running into people I’ve known, specifically women. And they were all pregnant. A former student, fromer...
