Okay, so this is a blog quoting a blog quoting another blog, but I don't want to make it look like I found this item all by myself. This...

When I started this blog I was intending to spend more time "researching" (i.e., web-surfing) varied questions and phenomena in th...

Sit in car at carpark. Pick up phone. Play move in online scrabble game. Check blog. Check friend's blog. Check friend of friend'...

I woke up this morning sweaty with anxiety, tangled in sheets and the remnants of a mix of disturbing dreams. I had one dream that I sent ...

We spent most of yesterday cleaning. Having walked in the door on Thursday to the realisation that "our house smells", we decided ...

Hmm, long time between posts. And what has inspired me to retrieve my forgotten password and dust off my account? Germs! Germs in adverti...

I find I'm having much much fewer of Those Days now my kids are nearly five (yes I know, it's a lull between difficult patches), but...

It's a sorry roll-call to be sure. It's springtime, and after record rainfalls and the end of the 12-year drought, these are ALL the...

How do you know when your daughter has watched too many Barbie movies? (Real answer: When you know she has watched at least one...) Here...

Here is a link to Alison Gopnick's website . I love love love this woman's work. She has turned notions of what young children com...