Cool human body tricks
As I mentioned on Monday, I’m pretty impressed with the human body. I mean, you live in your skin your whole life, but you totally take all the innard goings-on for granted (well, at least I did). And that’s when you’re just going along your everyday life, putting the coffee on, taking a shower, doing [...]
Keep your eye on the leprechaun!
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! I know what you’re thinking: You thought this week was going to be devoted to the human body, and what does a leprechaun have to do with that? Here’s my answer: Not much. However, as I was thinking about leprechauns this morning, I was thinking about how now, more than ever, [...]
Book giveaway: The Human Body
To mark the Grand Opening of the Polka Dot Suitcase, I’m giving away one of my books, The Human Body: 25 Fantastic Projects Illuminate How the Body Works. It’s geared toward kids from 9-12, but no matter how old you are, tell me you don’t want to learn how to make homemade skin care products [...]
Of a mouse and a man
I love Walt Disney World. Some people confuse this with a love of Mickey Mouse, but that’s not true (I adore Pluto). My dear husband, Big Fish, who has patiently traveled to Orlando with me several times, doesn’t get it. “I don’t get it,” he says when I, totally accidentally, leave the free WDW vacation [...]
Squirmy little wormy…
I’m generally not a big television watcher. Not for any moral or intellectual reasons, really. More like a time management reason. By the time the evening TV-watching hours arrive, I’ve still got dishes to scrape and toilets to unplug. Yeah, it’s that glamorous at Chez Polka Dot. But every once and a while, I’ll plop [...]
A box of food
Growing up, bag lunch meant that – a lunch in a bag (usually peanut butter and jelly that the apple squashed). But not for today’s kids – oh, no. Today’s kids get all kinds of fancy stuff, packaged in fancy ways. Thermal bags keep food hot and frozen juice boxes keep things cold. They’ve got [...]
Sloths are cities, too
Yesterday, my oldest son was doing a project on the rainforest, and we got to talking about sloths. They’ve always been fascinating to me in kind of a “there but for the grace of God go I” kind of way. (I have procrastination issues.) But here are two things about sloths I didn’t know: They [...]
