I understand now why Eskimos have so many words for snow.*  Sure, I understood before, but that was purely academic.  Now, my understanding ...

Late last week, the editors of Tenure, She Wrote posted an open letter to Nature editor Philip Campbell .  They were protesting the revelat...

I don't watch American Idol .  I think I've seen it a few times over the years it's been on TV, and while I found it oddly fasc...

It's always been interesting to me to watch the world awaken again after the Christmas to New Years week.  In my line of work, students ...

My post, "Why I Will Never Invite Cinderella to My Daughter's Birthday Party," is being featured over at BlogHer today!  Plea...

Every once in a while, I get on a cleaning jag. Like the one that led me to throw out my books, only a little less drastic. I think, in s...

I'm a Friday night grocery shopper.  After the dinner has been eaten, the dishes are washed, the kids are clean and in bed, I head out...