Scratch Food with a Side of Geek Mom and Pop Culture.
You see this kid? I wish this was my kid. Orderly bedtime has gone out the window, lately. Lately, my kid has been clocking in at no fewer than FORTY MINUTES to get ready for bed. This is after I pry him off of the screen or whatever else he’s doing and send him to get…
The Conservative canvasser for David Sweet was by the other day, and he asked me if I knew who I was going to vote for. “Not you guys,” I replied. And then I apologized, because I’ve lived in Canada long enough to pick up that endearing habit of apologizing for everything. “Would you mind telling…
Why haven’t I gotten on the Apple bandwagon? Well, as a matter of fact I’ve been a proud Apple user several times–about once a decade since inception. But the straw that broke the camel’s back was an iBook in 2003 with a huge technical flaw that required its motherboard to be replaced about every 5 months,…
As a film school nerd married to a film buff, I’d argue that my six-year-old has already had a somewhat unconventional upbringing when it comes to popular cinema–we’ve plopped him in front of virtually every appropriate 80s and 90s movie (and even a few less appropriate ones) that we could get our hands on. Movies have…
I’ve got people firing cannon shots at me over my decision to put my family on a version of the SNAP challenge for the month of May. I am a hypocrite, some say, for being a middle-class person “pretending to be poor.” If you believe this is true of me, here is what I say to…
The look on my six-year-old’s face let me know that it wasn’t a good day. Moms can tell. Unfortunately, I also had an idea what might be wrong. You see, I was recently gifted a brand new Jansport backpack. A lovely, bright purple backpack. It was part of a promotional package for the Netflix show The Unbreakable…
It’s been a couple of weeks, yeah I know. I’ve been hiding behind the excuse of cleaning and not wanting to add to my stress, but I’m going to have a food post up probably tomorrow– Hello? Anybody out there? *taps mic* OK, well maybe this post will be just for me so I don’t forget…
Hubs and I have an ongoing joke about kidlet: he’s probably going to be an accountant someday. If you ask him what he wants to be when he grows up, the answer is vague. I suppose that’s okay; after all, mommy never exactly figured out what she really wanted to do with her life either…
In the category of “things you probably don’t know about me,” like many most writers, I knew I wanted to write for years. This was something that was encouraged, and even lauded as part of a familial tradition. My grandfather was a writer, although he was more of the historian persuasion–he’s actually responsible for a…
I haven’t yet been able to wrap my head around the fact that it’s Christmas time, much less that my 16th anniversary is this weekend. It occurs to me that we’ve had a longer, better marriage than a great many people we know. It’s a shame, I guess. Although I do know that people tend to…