Today we get meta, with an Advent post about Advent calendars. When I was a kid, I was not impressed by Advent calendars. You…
The other side of CERN
When people think of CERN they generally think of the Large Hadron Collider and the Higgs particle and maybe black holes or even the…
A Cereal Romance
This week marks my parents’ 50th wedding anniversary. Neither of them is here to celebrate it, and I almost forgot it myself. But I…
Reading on a Sunday afternoon
Last week we had “reading day” on Sunday. It was my daughter’s suggestion, as both she and her sister had only done about half…
Lolsquirrel
I don’t usually do memes, but I saw this little guy sitting on the fence in my garden and decided to make him pay…
Don’t throw this away!
When we were cleaning out my parents’ house, my sister ran across a paperback novel, the sort of thing that normally we would have…