I recently took my son on an exciting camping trip near Chester. We pitched our tent on a small site, made friends with the people with marshmallows, explored the haunted caravan, spent one long day at the aquarium and another, longer day at the zoo, then packed up early one morning and headed to a… Read More »Just me
In an ideal world, I’d homeschool my son. Correction: In an ideal world, I’d solicit the help of experts in many fields, establish a school according to my own evidence-based values, and send my son there. Once Upon A Time, I thought homeschooling was what I would do. I was entranced and enamoured with all… Read More »Vindication
I have a tendency to hyperfixate on people. Mostly, these people are not people I know. This is lucky. It means they are buffered from the white hot intensity of my enthusiasm for their existence. I once wrote that I burn through things; I am always worried I will burn through people. At least if… Read More »White hot intensity
I’m quite a reserved person around most people. When those people aren’t looking, though, I am an unabashed, all-singing, all-dancing spectacle. I don’t know if the same is true for other outwardly reserved people. I’ve come to believe it is not, based on what I have heard, even though intuitively it feels like it should… Read More »Unveiled spectacles
Out walking today, it was very, very windy. After aborting our beach walk, we were heading inland, my son in a carrier with the cover over his head like he hasn’t been for about two years now. We’d had quite the adventure racing to shelter when the wind picked up. He’d had enough of the… Read More »Expand and retreat
Today has been a long day. We skipped our exercise time becase I was just too bloody exhausted. When we skip our exercise time, it is always a long day, but I’m not confident enough to proclaim causality. Instead of doing acrobatics to ‘Hey Ya!’, followed by ride-on yoga and our dinosaur inspired workout routine,… Read More »Not quite up for dancing