Miracle Grower

House plants looking a little droopy (or worse)? Save the water you strain from pasta, potatoes or veggies. Once it’s cool, use it to feed your plants. Lots of great nutrients in there that your plants will love.

Maximum Capacity

Recently, the Hub and I have been struggling with some communication issues. It’s not a Mars/Venus thing, where I tell him I’m longing for more connection and he brings me a computer cable. No, it’s a retention thing. And we’re both suffering from it.

As of late we have had some “heated discussions” regarding information we share with one another.  I, for example, will spend great amounts of time updating the Hub on the new exhibit at the Historical Society and in return he will earnestly share with me all of the facts and figures of his fantasy baseball league. When all is said and done both of us would swear up and down that the conversations never happened. (Read more…)

Stumbling On Parenthood

I was driving in my car today, and I heard a piece on the radio by Dr. Daniel Gilbert, a psychologist at Harvard. He wrote a book called “Stumbling on Happiness”, and one of his claims is that people who have children are less happy than people who don’t have children. Their happiness is especially low when the kids are in diapers, and again when they hit adolescence, but it increases when the children leave the house.

Throughout the day I kept wondering if this were true for me. I was running errands with daughter F. People came up to her and said hi, and “How cute!”, and she grinned and waved “bye, bye” and was generally charming. At the end of our errands we shared an ice cream. She kept wanting more, pointing to it and saying “Dat!” She laughed when I shivered and said it was “C-c-c-c-c-old.” I certainly felt happy. (Read more…)