Five Picture Books to Celebrate the Supermoon

According to space.com,  this year, the full moons of October, November and December all take place when the moon is at its closest point of approach in its orbit around Earth — a so-called Supermoon.  A Supermoon happens when a Full Moon or New Moon coincides with the Moon’s closest approach to Earth; also called perigee. In the Philadelphia area, moonrise…

Lars Rains, Modern Lopi at Hidden River Yarns

Friday night yielded a welcome distraction from the results of Election of 2016: yarn and a book signing at Hidden River Yarns! Lars Rains, author, knitter and designer, was at the shop for two days to promote his books Presto and Modern Lopi. I knew that I would grabbing copies of the books (because books!) but I did not think…

At the Movies: People That You Meet

The family and I went to go see Marvel’s Doctor Strange recently. It was pretty good but this post won’t be a review as I am sure there have been eleventeen hundred other people who have thought and considered and wrote more about the movie than I cold possibly do justice to the film. I *will* recommend you go see it…

It’s a Gray Day

Say it Rah-shay By Nov 09, 2016 1 Comment

Early this morning, The Bee came down from her room to join me in watching the movie Whiplash. “Did you see?” she asked, and before I answered she blurted, “Donald Trump won. I’ve been up all night watching and I’m scared.” She talked about a classmate who is afraid of her family being deported. There are some classmates who fully support Trump’s platform and…

Belly Busters: Soup’s On! with @CdnLentils

In which I attend a food conference thinking I made food things for my family to eat and left feeling like I could cook! Here’s how it went down…Buffy and I attended BlogHer Food ’16 as volunteers. “BlogHer FOOD?!” you say. Food like, cooking? A food conference? I get your confusion; I am not a “food” person. I like to…