Author: Backpacking Dad

Over at Making Light Teresa Nielsen Hayden has looked into the plastic surgery book and Newsweek’s story about it. Turns out, she discovered that the book is from a vanity publisher. That is, it was self-published by the author. There were no editors making a decision about how to best make a buck. At least,…

David Pescovitz over at Boing Boing has posted a….well, it’s not really a link, and it’s not really a story. And I don’t think it’s an ad. It’s just something he thought noteworthy. Boing Boing isn’t a parents’ blog, so I thought I would pull this story over here into the mom-and-dad blogosphere. This is,…

I’m going to grow sentimental here for a moment. Pardon my sappy-bastardness. Saturday morning we woke up and I made pancakes from scratch. It turns out all you need for pancakes from scratch is flour, baking powder (not soda), salt, maybe sugar, and some milk for mixin’. After pancakes I was given permission by my…