6:30 – wake up early because lamp guy is coming6:45 – wake up kids, get breakfast ready, make special sack lunches for ice-skate outing7:15 – make sure kids are getting dressed, wonder where lamp guy is7:30 – get self dressed (did I eat?)7:45 – welcome lamp guy (who is late again), begin hurding kids into [...]

Yes, it is trite, but I need it! I need a list of about 20 good angry woman songs. You see, I know I am doing the right thing, I have no choice at this point, but knowing it and not being scared are two different things. I need to move past scared and over [...]

Jim posted this picture about the ‘first’ flash mob where a group of women convicts, tired of a pompous reverend’s hypocrisy, flashed and slapped their bums. Because they were 300 of them, they were not arrested. Flashmob revival needed? Perhaps a statement to governments that tend to keep their heads in the vicinity of their [...]

This morning I was reading BBC News online and I found a picture of a school in in Kenya that was torched. The parents met there the very next day and cleared away the rubble so their children would not see their school desecrated. I am not a subscriber to the notion of a static [...]

I have been rereading some of my old posts and I found one where I took my kids out in a 5k race. I did that several times, and until they were 5 had no trouble running with them in our wagon. But somehow I had forgotten that we brought the guinea pig with us! [...]

Posts by Susi from Shiny Shiny were the reason I got hooked on this site several years ago. Now the whole gang keeps me entertained (helps me procrastinate while online) by showing me the latest gadgets and bags to put them in. Occasionally, there is a cute post about blogging culture. My favorite from this [...]

Ok, I am figuring it out, really. It really is about confidence. Research is as much about confidence in your findings as it is about what you find. That does not mean stick to your argument at all costs, rather critically believe in your methods and the results gleaned from them. So when I got [...]

Things have been quiet on the blog for some time now, but there has been A LOT going on in life. I have moved house, moved office, and been working on my thesis like a mad woman. (Even finished an article!!). And there is more to do like putting together the compendium for the next [...]