Peaceable Imperatrix

Because if I were in charge of the world, it would be a GREAT place... My realm consists of my Imperator Consort, two wonderful Imperatrixes-in-training (Impera and Trixie), a dog who thinks she's a cat, and a cat who thinks he's a dog. We're spending this year on sabbatical in New England, cramming in as many adventures as we can.

11 June 2008

I've Moved!

Yep, I got tired of the nonexistant Blogger support. Writing a blog should not create grief for the blogger, so please come to my new home: ...

10 June 2008

Can't Blog...

I meeeeeeeellllllttttiiiiinnngg. When I commented to the Consort that in the past, it was only hot here in NH for about 2 weeks in August , ...

06 June 2008

Alphabet Soup: A PSA, Followed by Some TMI

"A [City name] woman was killed when her vehicle was hit in a head-on collision on Highway 28 Tuesday evening." We read or hear th...

04 June 2008

The Fable of the Baby Sweater (Or: Me and Hubris, Once Again)

Once upon a time, I had some sock yarn , and I wasn't sure what I wanted to do with it. Cateling suggested I use it to make the famous E...

03 June 2008

Food Challenge, Two Ways

I decided to participate in One Local Summer this year. Silly, huh? The one year I don't have access to a large garden. The one year th...

02 June 2008

What I Wanted to Tell You

We just watched Seven Up/ 7 Plus Seven . It is a British documentary film project begun in 1964. Fourteen English seven-year-olds, from very...

29 May 2008

My New Idea: Genius or Madness?

This has been buzzing around in my head for a while. Did you know that the average shower head uses about 5 gallons of water per minute? Pe...

27 May 2008

Assumptions

I've got a client based in Cambridge, Mass., and when they learned that I'd be spending a year out in New England, they invited me t...

24 May 2008

Dear Hillary Clinton,

Congratulations! You have singlehandedly turned this year, that should have been one Democratic success after another, into one that is leav...

21 May 2008

Answer Week Fortnight Series: Day 6: Last One!

Three of Four asked, Describe one part of your childhood day-to-day (an activity, a sound, a smell, etc.) that your children will never expe...

19 May 2008

Answer Week Fortnight Series: Day 5

BoyOnTop asked, "If you were on a desert island, with no knitting or fiction, what hobby would you have to have to stay sane?" I s...

15 May 2008

Does This Count as Double Entendre?

Specter Calls Patriots’ Spying Wider Than Stated Sure, he's talking about football , but it just as easily could describe those self-sty...

12 May 2008

Answer WeekFortnight: Day 4

Stew asked, What's one thing you'd like to accomplish in the next year? The next four years? I never liked this type of question, be...

08 May 2008

Answer WeekFortnight: Day 3

Mizmell asked, What is your fondest childhood memory? I was stumped at having to pick just one, so I let the question percolate, and decided...

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