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Spanning Time Without Me

I’m going to call this a rough draft because it originally came to me as a song when I was in the shower. I’ve been fucking around with the tune, and the verse chorus verse, and I don’t have a guitar or a piano here, and I got frustrated, to say the least! Still angry, [...]

' February 1st, 2010 at 11:40pm 2 comments

See How I Did That?

Why is it that my daughter Polly finds slugs disgusting, yet she will hold a snail and declare how cute he is and can she keep him? I mean, does the shell make one cute? Would a cute little turtle be ugly without his shell? Never mind, I just answered my own questions. Turtles [...]

' August 25th, 2008 at 12:43am 4 comments

For those who garden or would like to and getting kids to eat their vegetables…

“We are stardust, we are golden,
We are billion year old carbon,
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden.”
Joni Mitchell
I highly recommend the gardening method set forth by Mel Bartholomew. In addition to the aforementioned website, his book is available on Amazon. When we first bought this house, I had visions of turning the [...]

' September 20th, 2007 at 12:04pm 2 comments

It’s Easy To Get Teens To Read.

Nathan reads S.E.X. by Heather Corinna

Polly reads the brand new Harry Potter book.

' July 21st, 2007 at 09:39pm 4 comments

Chop Chop Chop

Summer is going well so far. I had forgotten how much more food our kids seem to consume when they’re off school. It seems as if they were born with hollow legs. Also, Polly has been having friends spend the night, and the addition of a few more mouths to feed has made it always [...]

' June 27th, 2007 at 04:17pm 4 comments

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