This, That, and the Mother Thing

There are 164 countries in this world who offer paid maternity leave. There are four (4) countries in this world who do not. Guess which on...

Last week, I got a phone call about 10 am from our daycare. There are few things more frightening than seeing the daycare's name on Call...

Our friends moved out yesterday into their adorable cottage a few blocks from our house. We are so excited to have them in the ‘hood, but i...

Maybe it’s because I’m a bit of a geeky professor. I was in engineering and statistical analysis before I changed over to psychology, so my ...

This is my absolute favorite time of the year. The garden is just starting to come in, the weeds are under control, it's not too hot so...

We've got cuteness in spades over here. It's sickeningly sweet and I lap it up every day. True to my predictions, I'm even more ...

I'm back from yet another conference. We tend to bunch our conferences at the end and beginning of the semesters which usually causes f...

I just finished grading my finals today and turned in the grades. I've got another conference to go to next week that I've just fini...

But what could I expect from a conference in which I locked myself out of my room and had to go the lobby in my pajamas. And Gabriella may h...

You might inquite why I am posting so late at night. It's because I just got (back) in my room. What?!!? In my room after a day of trave...

and freaking the eff out. How many times have I fantasized about a night in a hotel room alone in which I could sleep and sleep and sleep an...

OK. So about our lawn and garden. There is good news: the asparagus is doing really well and I now have a hedge of green ferns outside my ...

I've been thinking a lot about the miscarriage lately. I've actually been thinking about it more these last few weeks of April than...

The last few months have been very, very stressful at work. I find the spring semester is always harder because not only are you in the mids...

We have a lot of Canadian Geese on campus. And oddly, this causes mixed reactions among folks around here. On the one hand, it's nice se...

I'm still figuring how this whole new blogger thing works. Nonetheless, this is the first time I've ever been able to blog while I...

Well, this is it. This is going to be the new place where This, That and The Mother Thing is going to live. If you want to catch up on what ...