Trick Or Treat: More Free Books
Followed a link to this Blogging for Books contest via so anyway … and couldn’t pass up a shot at getting some free books (or stuff from my Amazon wish list). So here is my mother’s ghost story. My...
View ArticlePonies Don’t Suck
Dino Spouse is an admirably engaged and affectionate father. That being said, he let the kids watch a three-DVD boxed set of “Beavis and Butthead” cartoons repeatedly this weekend. As a result, Skinny...
View ArticleHe Did What With The Rockets?
Father Protosaur is obsessed with rocketry. He is a space enthusiast. He’s been to space camp. He sent my brother to space camp. He’s planning to send all his grandkids to space camp. He e-mails me...
View ArticleLiving History
In taking the Dinos to West Virginia for Thanksgiving, I sustained a Thanksgiving tradition from my childhood. This consisted of a long drive to West Virginia, a short and fidgety stay with my...
View ArticleBack To It
I’m going back to work tomorrow. I had a good trip to Florida and a nice day off today. I got to log quality time with the kids and get some work done and knock off a trip to the Russian grocery store...
View ArticleThe Dinosaur Classics
A set of Harvard Classics from 1930 appeared in my parents’ home when I was a child. They were in the book shelf with the glass doors where also were displayed momentos from our relatives’ foreign...
View ArticleLogic
If Ma Protosaur read my blog, she would (after strenuously objecting to being “Ma,” an appelation she hates) take great delight in Riley Dino’s discovery of logic as a tool of persuasion. Yes, the day...
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View ArticleStandardized Testing
Courtesy of @fabredhead, I learned of this test to let one find one’s “Autism Spectrum Quotient,” or AQ. According to the author, the control group’s average AQ was about 16, and most test-takers who...
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Mouse and I went up to Columbia today so I could run errands and she could play with one of her friends. Her only Alexandria-local social engagement outside of school fell through when we had to attend...
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