Maybe limiting the time you spend on emails will help.
Keeping your desk in order will doubtless help life run a bit more smoothly, as well.
So! Your only child is turning three, and you want to make him something you know will delight him. You decide to make him a fancypants train-shaped cake, but you’re too cheap and too broke to buy a fancypants train-shaped cake pan. Luckily, your aunt taught you to decorate cakes when you [...]
Following up on Busy Mom’s lead, I present an often-confused pair of related verbs: “lie” versus “lay.” I find that even people whose use of the language is otherwise impeccable can confuse these at times.
Remember these two points:
“Lie” is not what you do to something, it’s simply something that you do.
“Lay” is not a [...]
I prefer to eat organic wherever practical. In general, I feel it’s better for the environment, better for animals, and better for people. For me specifically, I find it often tastes better, and the use of organic rather than “normal” milk has a measurable positive effect on the functioning of my digestive system.
Here [...]
Of all the things I could post here, I would not have thought that a post in which I linked to someone else’s post would be getting the most hits and attracting the most controversy.
So. After reading back over Kerflop’s post about an injury to her son and the product whose use lead to [...]
But I feel this little PSA warrants its own post:
Ms. Kerflop has discovered in a most unpleasant fashion that Magic Erasers can cause chemical burns. It seems that this applies to all of the “Magic Erasers” of any brand, only some of which may have warning labels. Most of them have no listing [...]
At least one person has found that post unclear. So, in even simpler terms:
RSS feeds show you what’s new on a website whenever something new is put on that site.
An RSS aggregator lets you see the RSS feeds for all your favorite websites by visiting just one website.
This is why, right now, I can [...]
A quick note: If you already use an RSS reader, feel free to skip this post. Or not — it does contain a link to a great explanation of RSS that you may wish to give to friends rather than trying to explain RSS yourself.
If there are more than a few websites you [...]