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Corn Starter Ghosts and Sidewalk Paint
Add cornstarch to Easter egg dye, and you get a pretty good sidewalk paint. Add cornstarch to kids and you get ghosts! My back was turned – all right, I was inside, getting more supplies! – when they...
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Roswell in Indy?
I was watching movie trailers with T-boy this morning, including trailer #1 for the latest Indiana Jones. A flash of “Roswell, New Mexico 1947″ caught my eye, so I rewound the movie and grabbed this...
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The World Did Not End Today
Nearly everybody (including those, like me, who can be accused of living under a rock with respect to pop culture) has heard of the lawsuit contending that the earth would be destroyed when the Large...
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Political Cartoons
Last week, 5th graders class re-assembled to listen to the presidential debates. Even though they started at 9 PM (unlike the 8 PM initially publicized to the parents), this was possible since it was a...
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Trick or Treat for Professionals
Tiny fraction of my Professional Schwag So I’m at a professional conference this week – National Association of Biology Teachers. I’m not a biology teacher, but I work with them, and I got invited to...
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Readers on Parade
One of the current favorite comics in our house is Sheldon. It’s 62% More Awesome, after all! So I ordered the 5-pack for Christmas and wrapped them separately, to share the Pure Gifty Goodness all...
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Magi(c) Carol
The random poetry challenge: pick 10 words at random from a dictionary (Close your eyes, open a page at random, and place your index finger on the page. Open your eyes and write down the word closest...
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Faux Food
For this year’s April Fool’s Faux Food, we had fish sticks. I riffed on this recipe, using crusty homemade sourdough bread instead of cookies (because (a) I didn’t have any wafer cookies, and (b) so it...
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Removing Staples from Feet
If you ever need to remove a staple from your foot – say, maybe you got up to answer the phone and your sock-clad foot found one on the floor – don’t turn to google to find answers. You can find out...
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and now for a quick diversion…
If you need a quick diversion to scratch your web-browsing itches, maybe I suggest the following: The Orphaned Postcard Project. Postmuse features a relatively short entry each day, highlighting a...
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