“Why didn’t they ever haul up the Titanic?”
The Eight-Year-Old, like most of us, is fascinated on some level with the Titanic. After last week’s discussion of the differences between flotsam, jetsam, lagan, and…
What’s The Seven-Year-Old reading this week?
This week, The Seven-Year-Old is devouring news stories about Vikings, dragon bones, and mega-rodents. She’s also reading books by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Benjamin Sherman, Bill Watterson, and Brad Meltzer.
“Mommyo, can we have an old-timey Thanksgiving?”
We are hosting Thanksgiving this year, and as usual, back when hosting was still a hypothetical prospect, The Seven-Year-Old and I got pretty excited about the possibilities. The Seven-Year-Old, brilliantly: “Mommyo, can we have an old-timey Thanksgiving?”
Follow-up to a very old post on the Dedham Bunnies
Once upon a time, when The Seven-Year-Old was merely five, she accepted a temporary assignment as Caterpickles’ Official Junior Photojournalist. For her first assignment, The Five-Year-Old elected to develop a 15-post Photo Documentary of the Dedham Shines Public Art Project going on that summer in nearby Dedham, Massachusetts. One of the bunnies, the Race Car Rabbit, referenced a piece of Norwood’s past life as a NASCAR-racing town. And now there’s a documentary about Norwood’s stock car racing history.
Mrs. Broadmoore’s Amazing Painting Cat
(Cross-posted on BostonWriters.) Back in 1994, Heather Busch published Why Cats Paint: A Theory of Feline Aesthestics. I was aware of it at the time and…
Wordless Wednesday: The Manhattan Project Edition
Close-up of the sign she’s reading: In case you can’t read the small print, the sign reads “Site of the First Self-sustaining Controlled Nuclear Chain Reaction…
Was Walter Potter related to Beatrix Potter?
When I learned of a Victorian taxidermist named Walter Potter who delighted in crafting ornate scenes using preserved animals dressed in period costume, naturally my first thought was, “I wonder if Walter Potter and Beatrix Potter were related?”
The Rajah’s Man & the Indomitable Lady Doctor
At my other place (Once upon a Time in Needham), I explore how this photo of a man on a camel taken at the turn of…
Wordless Wednesday: An Acorn of Unusual Size
In the process of very thoroughly cleaning out my piano, my piano tuner found this bizarrely large acorn tucked away inside. The Six-Year-Old and I have no clue what possible connection there could be between 1901 Everett uprights and 1.25″ acorns, but we are determined to find out. In the meantime, we’d like to know what kind of nut this is.
“Why is John Philip Sousa endorsing my piano?”
While researching Monday’s post on the history of my 1901 Everett piano, I came across an ad in which John Philip Sousa of Stars and Stripes Forever fame endorsed my piano. Now why in the world would he do that?
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