The thing that drives me nuts about the multi-billion dollar dieting industry is that most of them know (based on multiple scientific research studies) that their approach does more harm than good … especially those that push “meal-replacements” or radically reduced calorie diets. It is healthier to be fat than it is to diet, particularly… Read more The Biggest Losers Also Lose Their Metabolism
My dearest middle daughter, Buttercup, friend of sea lions and the sprinkles on the cupcake of my life, turns 9 years old today. Buttercup’s birthday is on Beltane and is shared with Mother Jones, and both these things kinda sum up my precious child. She is as wonderful as a warm spring day bursting with… Read more Happy Birthday Buttercup!
Today is my darling husband’s fortieth birthday, and we took the kids out of school for a day to celebrate Sweet Babou’s big 40 properly. We drove up to the Indy Zoo and White River park to have some fun in the sun with our hun! We rented a quadruple-bicycle-buggy-thingy (its technical name, really) and… Read more Sweet Babou Turns 40 Today!
Eighteen authors (including ME!) will be in London on 24 September to talk about history, discuss our books, answer question, mingle with our readers, and sign things if you want them signed. All proceeds are going to help the good people examining the Mary Rose winkle yet more facts out of her remains …… Read more Meet The Authors!
This is our rescue dog, Foxy: When we adopted her from an animal shelter in September she was nearly hairless from malnutrition and living on the street, and so starved you could see every bone in her body. The vet says someone tried to breed her but non of her pups lived long enough to… Read more Foxy Only Barks at Passive-Aggressive Behavior
In many ways I’ve been dreading Blossom’s adolescence. Not only does her Asperger’s mean that the normal strum and drang of the adolescent brain become even more erratically dramatic, it also means that trouble with her peers is nearly inevitable. I hate that. Autism in females presents both differently from males, and in several different… Read more Worries for Blossom
My eldest daughter, whom I call Blossom for the purposes of blogging, turned 11 years old early this morning. I’ve been a mommy for 11 years. Huh. That sure went by fast. Blossom wanted to dye her hair red as her birthday present. Since we are hard-asses about everything else, we give her autonomy over… Read more Happy Birthday Blossom!
Today is my youngest daughter’s birthday. She’s six, and I can no longer cling to the delusion that my baby is still a baby. I call her “Bubbles” on the blog because 1) she is too young to allow me to plaster her name all over the interwebs and 2) she’s as sweet and good-natured… Read more Happy Birthday, Bubbles
Have you ever been to Universal Studios Island of Adventure in Orlando, Florida? Well, thanks to my parents (THANK YOU MOM & DAD), my kids got to spend the day there as part of their Christmas vacation. The main attraction for my little geeklets was, of course, Hogwarts/Hogsmeade section of the park. We’re all big… Read more A Day of Hogwarts and Dinosaurs
I am currently at my parent’s house in Eastern Kentucky, where love is abundant and internet connections are sparse. Prior to that, I was frolicking throughout Florida and costal Georgia with my children and my parents. I’ll tell you more about that odyssey in a Honda Odyssey when I return to civilization, AKA: the Land… Read more Christmas Eve and Sunny