This morning I am engaged, in part, in spring cleaning. One of the things that has been on my list for some time and to which I almost got yesterday was the putting away of winter clothes. I was just about to start packing away the snow suits, boots and heavy coats when I chanced…
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Reboot
I’m still not sure exactly what happened to me this winter. A part of me would like to slough what I perceive as my lack of professional progress off on some variation on seasonal affective disorder. Another part of me would be happy to chaulk it up to creative and emotional collapse that follows a…
Quilt Canada
Someone wrote to me some time ago asking if I had any information about Quilt Canada. I spent some time researching the questions asked and writing up the results, only to find that I had, inadvertently, deleted the email sent to me. If you are still out there, whoever you are, and still need that…
FYI about Corn (and “what on earth was I thinking?”)
Katherine adores corn on the cob and will transport into paroxysms of delight at being told she can have some. Ordinary corn is pretty good, too, but there’s something special about corn on the cob that elevates it to a higher plane of satisfaction in the realm of kid-dom. Katherine refers to corn on the…
It’s Monday….
… and we’re off to a roaring start in the Taylor-Hood household. I’ve long suspected that some dog or other was drinking out of the toilet (despite having a three gallon doggy water fountain in the kitchen), but it wasn’t until we got Katherine a kid-sized toilet seat add-on that we caught the culprit red-handed….
Raising the Bar Strength & Conditioning 