Category Archives: nothing special

Dear Mythbusters, I understand you probably get a ton of letters from mothers complaining about the experiments you run, in that it gives their offspring ideas that, as much as you say “don’t try this at home,” they still do, … Continue reading →

Stardust is one of my favorite movies.  After seeing it for the goodness-knows-how-manyth time, I really want a Babylon candle.  Mucking around with a minivan just seems so inefficient, somehow.

The Red-Headed Menace, working on a history assignment: “Hobbes said that man’s life in a state of nature was nasty, brutish, and short…. it makes me wonder what kind of a home life he had.”

After a labored pun about Descartes and horses, I commented that my ability to make puns had come back.  For some reason, I started spontaneously making puns over the past week, something which I had not been doing in casual … Continue reading →

Yesterday, I was sitting at a stoplight in the van.  It was a perfect day, warm but not too much so. I had the window open to catch the gentle breeze. A car pulled up.  The music was blaring, making … Continue reading →

Homemade bread just out of the oven spread with softened butter is a good reason to go on living.

I’ve been cooking this week.  I understand that that might not sound like much, but I don’t cook all that much (as opposed to simply making something to eat), except for holidays and special events and the occasional set of … Continue reading →

Having finished watching all episodes of Ken Burns’ Baseball (including the extra episodes he did in 2007), I am struck again how angry I am at Barry Bonds. It is not that he is a private person and snarls at … Continue reading →

From my written meanderings during Tuesday’s trivia game: “Pay no attention to the pink elephant(s) standing in the corner shouting that the theater is on fire.” There are mixed metaphors and then there are mixed metaphors deluxe.

I realized this afternoon that I wrote a (rather over-the-top) post on Monday about making the butterfly earrings, stating that they were the first jewelry I had created in a year.  This morning I wrote a post in which I … Continue reading →

I am sitting in the coffee shop the Resident Shrink frequents, having succumbed to the siren song of a slice of lemon meringue cake and a large decaf iced mocha, waiting to drive to Trivia.  The cake is, unusual in … Continue reading →

Google used its Street View project to possibly grab emails?  And they used a car to do it? Seriously?  Why not snatch whatever they wanted off people’s GMail accounts?

Democracy is not a spectator sport.  Lotte Scharfman, former president, Massachusetts League of Women Voters. For all my California friends, you only have twenty days (until May 21) to register for the primary election on June 5.  This year there … Continue reading →

My father once told me that there is no such thing as coffee that is too strong.  Generally speaking, I believe this to be true: I have made coffee probably forty times since the beginning of the year, and only … Continue reading →

I  made a pair of earrings today. Not repaired, made. I have not made new jewelry in almost a year. A year ago, I was prolific enough I considered selling my work on more than an ad hoc basis.  Then … Continue reading →