Nothing marks the passage of time more obviously than the growth of children from one year to the next, as I learned this morning when my 6-year old exclaimed “O.M.G.!!” when she saw where the Elf on the Shelf landed this morning.
May your holidays be filled with traditions, new and old, that [...]
Halloween is coming, and I’m getting excited! Here are some cool things I’ve come across recently that are getting me into the Halloween mood.
A lovely line of monster supplies comes to us from the Hoxton Street Monster Supplies store in London. (It’s really a front for the Ministry of Stories. After squeeing with glee over [...]
A watched soft-close toilet seat never closes. ~ New American proverb
The time dilation in effect for most of this year is now over. Time has headed over a cliff and is now falling toward December faster than I can hang on to my safety ropes.
Time dilation allowed me to do all sorts of things this year: gardening, complain about the heat, start a compost bin, [...]
“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”
So says Ford Prefect in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (by the late, brilliantly funny Douglas Adams).
I love science fiction, and well, wickedly funny science fiction is just about my vision of nirvana. I would like to give you more quotes from this funniest series of stories ever [...]
Blog off!
What’s that, you say? Is that some new curse de jour for cranky blog readers and writers to hurl at passersby by? No friends, it’s a term coined by and an activity engaged in by some of my Twitter friends. Since entering the strange universe that is Twitter, I have met a slew [...]
