The American Cancer Society:

Please donate if you haven't yet!

Amy is incorporating a fundraiser for the American Cancer Society into her Appalachian Trail through-hike. Please make a pledge if you can!http://main.acsevents.org/site/TR/

In the early 1900s rumors began to circulate about the poinsettia's supposedly darker side--some claimed the plant was poisonous if ingested. Then, in 1919 the poinsettia's fate was sealed when a story circulated that a two-year-old boy died after eating a poinsettia leaf.
Well ( Read more... )

The Young Miss and I have been singing, to the tune of Jingle Bells:

Commerce Day! Commerce Day!
Give me lots of gifts!
If I don't think I got enough,
I'll throw a little fit!

It is not so well developed as the parmesan song, as it has no verses. You are welcome to supply some if your creative juices start flowing.

Sarah's article in the Alumnae Quarterly has been published. It's online at http://alumnae.mtholyoke.edu/blogs/blog/mount-holyoke-alumnae-quarterly/learn-more/2009/08/20/salamanders-signal-a- ( Read more... )

Well, I feel vindicated. My children have always though I was terribly unreasonable for not allowing them on any trampoline unless they were the only one on it AND there was an adult supervising ( Read more... )

Congratulations to fearless_em, who just called to let me know she's all "gradificated."

Too bad we couldn't be there for both the defense and the ceremony, but that would have been one loooong trip.

Mark realized today that there are rocks near Atlanta that he would like to see, so he and his young field assistant will be accompanying me (sort of) on this trip ( Read more... )

Sadness ensues.

They got in at about 8.