Night Sky Watch: The moon helps Mommyo spot Mercury (and Mars)
If you happen to live in an area where clouds and/or light pollution aren’t blocking your view of the sky (Chicago, I love you, but you do have…
Book Review: The Borrowers
This week, my daughter reads The Borrowers by Mary Norton.
Throwback Thursday: The Four-Year-Old writes Elvis
The Ten-Year-Old has been an Elvis fan for at least six of her ten years. There have been a few rocky points in their relationship, however. Like that time The Four-Year-Old learned that Elvis didn’t really like cats. And the day she discovered that she didn’t really like his Christmas album. So she wrote — or rather had me type — this letter to Elvis giving him a bit of timely advice.
Wordless Wednesday: How to Speak Cat
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“Why did FDR use a wheelchair?”
Franklin D. Roosevelt was paralyzed from the waist down from the time he was 39, so used a wheelchair in private settings. He felt his disability was a disadvantage for his political career, however, so trained himself to walk using a cane and iron braces. Only 3 pictures of him in a wheelchair exist.
Book Review: Rembrandt (Art for Children Series)
The Art for Children Series, now sadly out of print, includes 16 books on major artists across the spectrum, including Rembrandt, Remington, Van Gogh, da Vinci, Gauguin, Chagall, and Picasso.
Throwback Thursday: How to make your own leprechaun money
For St. Patrick’s Day this year, The Five-Year-Old and I decided to make our own leprechaun money.
Some bunny’s 10!
Hint: Here she is, as a mere five-year-old, making a few preliminary sketches of Gary Koeppel’s Bunny in the Clouds during the 2012 Dedham Public Art Project. You…
Tax season cometh
Hey there — it’s tax season again, so I’ll be taking a few days off from blogging to pay my dues to Uncle Sam before spring break…
What’s The Nine-Year-Old reading this week?
This week, The Nine-Year-Old is reading Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson and Women in Science by Rachel Ignotofsky. She also convinced me to hold a snake.
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