Jan 31
This is the crown that Big Critter made. She also didn’t like a radially symmetrical design. She sketched what she was thinking of, and I helped her design it. For the shiny gold parts, she drew a design with hot glue, and then applied gold leaf directly to the cooled glue. It works very well. …
Jan 30
Love, Honor and Negotiate: Making Your Marriage Work by Betty Carter I read a lot of self help books, but I haven’t read a lot of self help books on how to make one’s marriage work. The authors are Betty Carter, who has been a therapist for decades, and Joan Peters, who made it readable. …
Jan 28
When I made my crown, I made it radially symmetrical, and it didn’t occur to me that the kids would want anything else. However, they are people, and people have their own minds. Little Critter wanted it more like a tiara, and she wanted swans. It took some doing, but I was able to oblige. …
Jan 27
I went to buy coffee the other day, and I decided to get it ground at the store because our burr grinder at home takes too long. They had three grinders. One was for flavored coffee only, which makes sense because flavored coffee is nasty. I don’t get it. It makes about as much sense …
Jan 25
Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche by Ethan Watters I read a lot of books about psychology and mental illness, but this book took what I already knew to a new level. It discusses four different illnesses in four different cultures: anorexia in Hong Kong, schizophrenia in Zanzibar, PTSD in Sri Lanka, …
