Lately I've been thinking about a few things, including the purposes (plural) of blogging.  I use my blog as a scrapbook, and a place to write essays, and a place to talk about my garden, and to post nature photos, and to document my kids' learning, and also as a little piece of ...

(I started this post yesterday, but typepad apparently ate it.  Let's try this again.) Erin asked: I've always found the ideas of file crates too overwhelming, being a visual person I can't quite get it but you've made me think a little more. Can you explain two things? 1: What are you putting ...

Dawn and Theresa both posted recently about their "typical" days.  Their posts reminded me that I hadn't done a Day in the Life post for a while, so I decided to keep track of our Friday.  Friday was typical in that we didn't go anywhere (we have more days at home than not during...

Thank you to everyone who sent well-wishes to Pip.  He's his normal, rowdy self again, which means another bump on the head is probably imminent.  Funny thing about toddlers; there seems to be absolutely no correlation in the toddler mind between cracking one's head open the day before and...