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Author: Juli Kearns

  • Reimagining yourself is hard work

    H.o.p.: “I want to be a turtle…I guess it’s a bad idea…Ow!” Circumstance? Well, one of those small round trampolines isn’t always a trampoline. Who knew it could be a turtle shell? The transformation wasn’t as smooth as H.o.p. thought it would be, but he was determined and now I’m the mother of Turtle Boy.

  • Phoenix, Suburban Study

    Phoenix, Suburban Study

    Phoenix, Suburban Study Digital painting 2006 Enlargement

  • Some Georgia Aquarium pics

    Went to the Georgia Aquarium today. It is quite an outing. A brother’s wife was with their daughter and picked us up. Then a sister of mine joined us down there with her children. So we were three adults and 8 children. One has to first make reservations. And if you are planning an outing…

  • Guess the song

    Boingboing has a link to a video of San Francisco Ballet principal dancer Muriel Maffre performing “Ballet Mori”…conducted by the earth. It’s a “musical composition modulated line in real time by the fluctuations of the Earth’s movement as measured by a networked seismometer at the Hayward Fault”. The 3 minute dance was in commemoration of…

  • The Rude Cayman

    I’m so disappointed. H.o.p. began last week a little story book called “The Rude Cayman” but never finished it. He cut out the cardboard cover and drew the pic and cut out paper to fit inside and began drawing the pics and writing the story then pffft apparently ran out of steam and interest and…

  • Someone please explain this for me

    Weird thing just happened (at least it’s weird to me, in my book) and I wish someone would explain it for me. I was neatening up around here and noticed on a corner table (plastic) a small wadded up piece of tape covered with lint. I picked it up and screamed (yeah) and dropped it…

  • First library book

    Yeah, I know, all other homeschoolers have their kids using the library like crazy, but until this year H.o.p. firmly believed in never a lender or borrower being. He would have nothing to do with it. Not the library, but the idea of lending and borrowing. What’s yours is yours and what’s mine is mine.…

  • Paul Bunyan and Bear Butte and the spiritual heart of these United States

    Looks like Tild’s back, Norweganity commenting, Just to kick things off, a contest! She doesn’t specify a prize in her post, but I know we were talking about something along the lines of a free trip to Arak, Iran, for a chance to meet Mohamed ElBaradei and maybe see a spectacular fireworks display. Which is…

  • And we talked about Paul Bunyan

    And we talked about Paul Bunyan

    Paul Bunyan with gun Digital painting based on photo by artiist 20 by 13 inches approx Copyright J Kearns 2006 Enlargement Detail. [clear] The photograph on which the painting is based was taken back in the early 90s and I can’t remember where but it would have been either Colorado or Wyoming (definitely someplace with…

  • Fake (or mistaken) Email Insider Summit VIP invite meets a not so squishy ego

    I made a note to myself to go around the blogs today seeing what people had to say about the “I would like you to be our guest for the 2006 Email Insider Summit” all-expenses-paid (even airfare) email sent out by Mediapost on Monday. And it’s interesting to me how many people (some probably legitimately)…

  • I threw away my paper prayer rug and today I regretted it

    Yesterday I threw away the paper prayer rug “Saint Matthews Churches” and Rev. Ewing sent me in the mail. And today I regretted it, realizing the prayer rug would have fit the space above the toilet in the bathroom perfectly. Saint Matthews Churches please send me another paper prayer rug! But make me the second…

  • The prayer rug

    We used to get this kind of thing in the mail all the time but haven’t since we moved into this building several years ago. So much to our delight the other day we opened the mailbox to find, packed away in a neat little business size envelope, our personal prayer rug. Which comes with…