Dreadful Penny

We don’t really know where the local squirrels get their food. Oh sure, they gather walnuts and acorns from the trees and dig grubs out of our lawn; that’s nothing unusual. I’m talking about their junk food. We’ve seen squirrels nibbling full slices of pizza and carrying a bagel up a tree. […]

There’s a decent intro to steampunk in today’s New York Times. I’m a big fan of the aesthetics of steampunk — I ooh and ahh at computer mods and costumes — but I haven’t made any creations of my own. Now that the genre has been covered in the Times, I fear that […]

My husband thinks I’m the bees’ knees, but there is one area of my psyche that he cannot fathom: I watch reality-based TV shows. Only a few and, with the exception of Project Runway, I couldn’t care less if I miss a week, two weeks, or even the finale. Television is good background […]

I haven’t read Pollan’s previous book The Omnivore’s Dilemma, but having seen him interviewed, it struck me that he felt the need to apologize for not being vegan and justify his choice. I’m a proud and happy omnivore myself, so I began reading this book with a bias toward the content but against the author. […]

It seems disjointed to begin a blog without saying hello. So, howdy.
What sort of blog is this going to be? That’s hard to say. The only likely connection from one post to the next is me: I find something that inspires me to write, so I do. If anyone visits this site regularly, he will […]