Month: June 2007
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My friend started a blog. What does she WANT?
My friends were so supportive when I started a blog (probably happy that I’d stop telling them about the crazy things I read and think about). They’d sometimes even log on and read my pearls. (Usually in front of me just to show that they had looked at it.) Sometimes they’d even call me up to…
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How to Host A Carnival
Several posts are flying around my head but the most urgent is based on a comment in this week’s Carnival of Family Life by next week’s hostess Little Mummy– she’s understandably nervous at hosting her first carnival. Hosting is fun and easy (we all write don’t we?) but takes a lot of time. If you…
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Carnival of Family Life – June 25 2007
Thank you for the sixty wonderful submissions. Â I’d had a little trouble thinking of interesting things to say lately and you’ve given me weeks of things to respond to. If your links not quite right let me know and I’ll fix it – I had a 30 second crash and lost posts in the middle.…
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Ethanol in Gas
My environmental posts come from a lot of research into scientific papers. This doesn’t. (I’ll research it later, but if anyone has a clue, I’d love to know about it.)  I’ve been driving in NYC lately. This doesn’t usually give me blinding headaches. NYC has had ethanol in it’s gas for a long time but now…
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Reunion Smalltalk – How Will You Survive Global Warmng
Time flies at this time of year . . . finals, graduations, weddings, reunions. I had the pleasure of attending my college reunion. One of the real pleasures of attending a reunion of geeks and geekettes is the lack of pre-reunion angst. As I happily stressed over my daughter’s graduation outfit we continually tripped over…