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  • A Precarious Perch at Twilight

    A Precarious Perch at Twilight

    A Precarious Perch at Twilight Sept 2008 Enlargement Brave man on a ladder at a Midtown intersection at twilight. This evening on our walk H.o.p. entertained himself making movies of Yoshi, a little toy figure of his. Yoshi was tossed up and down and thrown across the sidewalk and walked fences and cavorted in trees.…

  • Why I Love This Old Apartment Building

    Marty’s off to New York for a couple of days and, as H.o.p. was going to be missing him, Marty prepared yesterday a big pot of red beans that would simmer and simmer and simmer and be prime eating by the time Marty was doing the sound check for his gig. So while Marty was…

  • Pen preferences

    I was going to just comment then thought I’d write a post pointing back over to Quasifictional who today talks about her affection for fountain pens. H.o.p. will only use Sanford Uniball fine pens. I actually settled on the Uniball many years ago, before H.o.p. was born, when I sometimes still wrote with a pen,…

  • Programs for homeschoolers at Zoo Atlanta

    Programs for homeschoolers at Zoo Atlanta

    Tuesday was Homeschool day at Zoo Atlanta and they have a brand new program called Homeschool Academy. Join Zoo Atlanta for an afternoon of learning and discovery designed specifically for home school students. The HomeSchool Academy is a unique program allowing students to explore animal and science concepts in a fun, interactive environment. Programs are…

  • We’re Doing Our Math and Right Now H.o.p.’s liking it

    Since we began our homeschooling year at the end of August/beginning of September, I’ve just not had the time for much of anything but homeschool, which means projects like the UFO interviews have gone back burner for now. We are especially deep into math right now. Gotta tell you, last year we got Timez Attack…

  • From the road

    Listening to Sue Wilkinson’s new album as we drive. Beautiful! Marty and Sue have been working on it off and on for about a year and a half(?) and they’re close to finishing. “Sympatico” is perhaps my favorite thus far, atmospheric, Middle Eastern percussion. Riq and bendir and…washtub! Great big aluminum washtub. Courtesey of Raphael.…

  • The child has (yes, thank god) half a brain!

    The Bad Homeschooler is what we ought to call this blog except for the fact that I don’t write much about homeschooling here (relatively speaking) and it’s not like we want to draw attention to ourselves and have people gathering about going, “Look, they’re bad homeschoolers!” It’s that time of year in which books I’ve…

  • The Boy Who Loved Jawbreakers

    I’ve been going through my files today looking for several pages of writing that I now fear are lost, probably dumped in one of my purges. But I found this, which I’d forgotten about, which I wrote a few years ago. * * * * * * Mom. I always find it refreshing when somebody…

  • The new header image

    My thanks to Ed Wiancko for letting me use a great family photo of his for my new header image. This site has nothing to do with rowboats but of course the majority of Google searches I get have to do with rowboats…and banana popsicles. I wrote about banana popsicles once or twice and now…

  • Fairy tale podcast fails at first try (and I don't think I'll do it after all)

    H.o.p. and I attempted Sunday to do a fairy tale podcast (a first–H.o.p.’s done his own little radio shows, but this idea was mine) and it failed. We made four attempts and though H.o.p. enjoyed himself even he admits, in this case, that having a good time doesn’t make for something to release on the…

  • Has Internet Technology (i.e. Googlemaps Streetview) Destroyed a Perfectly Good Sort-of Vacation?

    So, Marty is going to play at the CD release party for a record he produced (nice guy, I’ve met him and his wife, had dinner at his place once) and it’s going to be in New York. This started in June, his talking about it and planning for me and H.o.p. to go with…

  • In which H.o.p. visits Club Penguin

    H.o.p. learned about the online community for children, Club Penguin. He thought it sounded fun. “Waddle around and make friends!” their promo says. And I’d read a piece about Club Penguin and how some members had raised money for an environmental concern, project, whatever, it sounded like coherent life afoot, plus it’s looked over by…