The Five-Year-Old takes pictures
A series of photographs The Five-Year-Old took with her new Fisher-Price Kid Tough Camera. Cozy the Cat, Daddyo, and her favorite balloon all kindly posed for the camera.
Placebo Bandaids and other news of the week
LA bans single use plastic bags, the April Lyrid meteor shower seen from the International Space Station, and other news of the week.
In which The Five-Year-Old auditions for a job at Hallmark
The Five-Year-Old, petting Cozy, our eighteenish-year-old cat: “Ahhh, love is popping out of my heart.” Spring Break may be over, but apparently, I’m still out of…
Baby Eagles! and Other News of the Week
Baby eagle webcam, male trees in cities, and other news of the week
When School Vacations Go Bad
Another in my backlog of Mulberry posts… Scene: I’m sitting on the couch enjoying a few minutes of down time during Thanksgiving break, when The Five-Year-Old…
Giant Fleas, Tiny Old Horses, and Other News of the Week
We start off this week’s batch of science news with a story that has my cat Cozy digging furiously at his ear. Dinosaurs may have been covered in giant fleas. Ick ick ick.
Feline Lullabies
As composed by The Four-Year-Old. Designed to be sung as loud as you can, preferably while petting an actual cat, if you can get any to…
The trouble with nature shows
The trouble with nature shows is that watching them makes the Four-Year-Old very curious. Which means I spend an awful lot of time looking at pictures of things I wish I didn’t knew existed. But they also prompt some wonderful questions.
In sickness and in health
Daddyo, on finding me slumped in a fetal position on the couch, buried in cats: “Mommyo, do you want to go lie down? You look like…
In Which The Four-Year-Old Plans the Cat’s Thanksgiving
After watching me work through one Thanksgiving prep list after another this week, The Four-Year-Old decided to write a Thanksgiving prep list of her own.
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