Lynxcub: What's this book about? (having pulled it off my shelf ( Read more... )

Today is the Lynxcub's birthday, so I am celebrating four years of having the world's most awesome tiny person in my life. Thus far the celebrating seems to have mainly involved an awful lot of Lego, because that, robots and spaceships are predominantly what the world of Little A revolves around at the moment. Happy birthday to my amazing little ( Read more... )

Being a parent always means having to answer a lot of questions. Being a parent with a complicated life and/or some unconventional interests sometimes means having to answer some less common sorts of questions. Here are a few the Cub has asked me of late, followed by my answers:

• ( Why are we making a cake with gears on it? )

So, I had been kind of undecided as to what to do about Pride this year, in that (for non-locals, and anyone local who somehow hasn't heard) it had become a huge political mess, due to controversy over a pro-Palestinian group called Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QuAIA) which some people perceive as being anti-semitic (despite the fact that, one ( Read more... )

Found via bipolypagangeek:

Alexander the Great and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day

Won’t Back Down by Naomi Wolf.

Really scary article on the current political situation in the US.

I'm thinking maybe we won't try to get dual citizenship for Aidan. And that I may go down the US consulate and renounce my own.

I was relieved to find out that my younger stepbrother, who lives in New York and works very near the disaster site, and his family are all right. As of the e-mail my parents got from his wife this morning, my stepbrother was making his way home on foot as transit is not running and most of the major roads are closed, and they were planning to ( Read more... )