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 [...]

The Ants Go Marching…

With great  aspirations to post about any number of other things this weeks, I am writing about ants.  Why?  Because we were joined in out kitchen by approximately one million of them today.

Oh yes, the ants go marching one by one…and two by two…and four hundred by four hundred.  Oh, what to do about [...]

Life, Real Life, in Las Vegas

This past week I had the chance to speak with some writers from my grad school alumni magazine.  They were asking honest questions about why a graduate in technical theater would move to Las Vegas and they eventually got to the question everyone from out of town asks…the one that makes you think the questioner [...]