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Technology: is it granola or fast food?

As someone who loves to learn, part of my job that I truly enjoy is being able to hear speakers from many industries.  Working in AV and supporting keynote speakers with microphones, projectors and lighting, I have learned about all manner of things – trauma medicine, eye surgery, banking, electronic retailing, LED technology, the wine [...]

Fighting Diabetes; or How I Became a Vegetarian

Though it wasn’t quite a year since having Gabriel, I went to my family doctor for a blood panel and check up in January.  I had experienced a sudden cluster of low blood sugar episodes.  I have been having these since I was a teenager.  When I was pregnant with Dante and seeing a perinatologist [...]

Teaching Thanksgiving

There are, I am sure, many ways that kids learn about Thanksgiving.  Classically, there is the story of the Pilgrims told in countless schools…complete with hats made to wear home and traced hands transformed into turkeys.  But how is Dante learning about the holiday?  Two words, my friends: Williams.  Sonoma.

In the onslaught of catalogs [...]

Baaa-nishing Eczema

“What kind of milk is that?” asked an elder woman peering into my Trader Joe’s cart earlier today.  Actually, the conversation started with her asking if I knew what the staff ringing the bell meant and if I shopped there often.  But it quickly turned to my milk.

“Goat.”  I replied.  “Goat Milk.”

She nodded [...]

Finding Balance

I love seeing what new element of physics Dante is exploring.  For awhile it was gravity, of course. (“Does this toy hit the floor if I let go?” Yes. Every time.)  Velocity was in there too, as were pretty much all the properties of water.  (Dinner time is discovery time.)  All three of Newton’s Laws [...]