Category: FreeForm

  • More different YouTube

    Well, I’ve written 1700 words so far, but I’m not finished and it’s 11:56. So, in lieu of a MASSIVE post, an argument: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQFKtI6gn9Y&feature=player_profilepage#t=53s] What’s different about it is that it is NOT a copyright infringement. That’s right. It’s the honest to goodness Monty Python channel! On YouTube. With links on which they encourage us…

  • You know what stat I really want?

    This is a self-referential post, although I have managed to avoid making it recursive. For now. Check back later. I have been watching the stats on my blog with interest. (Oh, c’mon, bloggers. You know you do it, too.) They have been increasing consistently since I started posting on a regular basis last fall, and…

  • Review: Anathem

    Welcome to the third month of the Once A Month Book Club! This month we have been reading fantasy stories, which are those “featuring magic paranormal magic and terrible monsters”. Wow, wonder if J.K Rowling used that as a checklist? Don’t forget to check out the links at the bottom of the page to find…

  • Off My Game

    I keep starting new posts, and they get so big and out of control and problematic, and I’ve written myself into a corner and I can’t find my way back out and, OH! It is the sheer amount of input. I’m overwhelmed, trying to make sense of natural disasters, a flood of articles sent my…

  • Frankenstein

    From time to time I find myself wanting to repeat a tweet I made several months ago that looked something like this: “Didn’t all these people have to read Frankenstein in highschool?” In this case, “from time to time” means “several times a week.” Here are some words that I think should be included in…

  • The Story of Me Us

    Via Chris Brogan, who said that it is important to keep telling the story of you to new readers. And probably to old ones, too. Below is the comment I left in response to the original post on Chris Brogan’s site. I know? Bold, eh? Hey, he asked. I’m a relative newcomer to “New Media,”…

  • Morning with The Dilettante

    I am gazing out the window at my cat. He is doing something in the snow. Sniffing, investigating. He sits and stares across the river. I wonder. How does he decide what to do next? How does he choose which scent to indulge, follow, investigate? Can he be said to have will? I turn to…

  • Ten Fundamentals

    Welcome to the March Carnival of Natural Parenting: Natural Parenting Top 10 Lists This post was written for inclusion in the monthly Carnival of Natural Parenting hosted by Hobo Mama and Code Name: Mama. This month our participants have shared Top 10 lists on a wide variety of aspects of attachment parenting and natural living.…

  • The Price Of Gas!

    Oh! It is time to run in circles and flap our hands! Gas is going up! Food will cost more! Who could ever have predicted this??? Here is one of the places where the division between structural analysis and the personal impact becomes glaring. It has become apparent to me over the last few years…

  • This Little Light of Mine

    “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God.…

  • Imagine

    That’s what I’ve got tonight. John Lennon already said everything I want to say, and he did it in under 4 minutes. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b7qaSxuZUg] (My son asked why my daughter was in this video. Apparently she and I look like John Lennon. It is not the first time this observation has been made.)

  • Trebuchet!

    The last PD day that it was sunny, we took advantage of the situation to assemble and fire one of the miniature trebuchets that we received for Christmas. We are the type of family that received two trebuchets from different sources. We had a great time firing it, so we recorded our fun and games…