Michael and I love chickens. We own The History of the Chicken on DVD, we took a class on chickens, and we dressed Rosalie up like a baby chick for Halloween 2008. They are so adorable, so alert, so interesting!
Anyway, I probably am genetically predisposed to love chickens; my mom is passionate about keeping chickens and has done [...]
Happy Thanksgiving! Did you have pumpkin debates at your house, too? Ours hit us by surprise. World Championship Punkin Chunkin’ was on TV, and after a particularly good launch, some dude on the show commented, “Not bad for a vegetable.”
“Except that a pumpkin’s a fruit,” I commented, probably smugly.
Mom protested with equal authority, “Except that it’s a vegetable.”
“Pumpkins, squashes, [...]
When I taught 6th Grade math a few years back, I was always looking for ways to make my job harder with fun-for-the-kids activities that tripled my workload. This resulted in many fine yet amorphous projects, such as writing songs about the properties of triangles and designing your dream room.
One year, around the holidays, I took a turn for the [...]
