Monthly Archives: July 2013

Everybody’s so bossy with their Rules for Life and How to This and That… but I’m a sucker for lists! So today, I offer you some tips and suggestions from bossy people who undoubtedly know better than I how to … Continue reading →

Thanks, everybody, for following along with my zany adventures in research and procrastination for all these years. :-)

Astute readers and those familiar with my affinity for the coarser aspects of the English (and most other) language(s) will doubtless surmise / probably guess what the asterisks in the title of this post stand for, and I highly recommend … Continue reading →

Read an article, “The babies we don’t care about today,” by Laurie Penny (via KB & JG on FB), who wrote: Of all future subjects of our new infant overlord, none are more scapegoated than teenage single mums. Let’s not … Continue reading →

Seriously, I don’t know how people did research before the Internet. It must have been TEDIOUS. Respect and props to everyone who has actually cut images out of the encyclopedia with scissors and used a typewriter (third grade was good … Continue reading →

In the spirit of Roderick Haig-Brown, I’m inspired to share a few comments on conservation from Douglas Adams. Part the Third, in which the dolphins disappear. Douglas Adams gave a great talk about conservation entitled “Parrots, the Universe and Everything.” … Continue reading →

In the spirit of Roderick Haig-Brown, I’m inspired to share a few comments on conservation from an exchange with KB. Part the Second, in which the trees don’t make the cut. My good friend KB researches, among other things, trees. … Continue reading →