More Mental Floss articles that I wrote! Get ’em while they’re hot! 12 Gloriumptious Facts About Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl actually was a chocolate tester for a candy company when he was a kid. It stuck with…
We have a new family member. She’s 8 weeks old. Name suggestions?
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I have a new camera. I went out on Saturday and tried it out, going to the Jack London State Park and a winery. I’m happy with it. Luther Burbank’s spineless cactus. A boy and some fish. I love this…
What’s going on with you? Here’s some things going on with me: I’m harvesting hops. I have at least 15 ounces of Cascade and Sterling hops from the garden. Kyle is going to make a beer with them. I’m sewing…
I reviewed Felicia Day’s memoir You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost)for KQED, including thoughts on GamerGate. READ IT HERE.
I saw this gorgeous garden at a winery. I want my yard to look like that. I’m regarding 2015 as a difficult gardening year. Sow bugs are devouring the roots of my plants and slowing my yield. I’m not getting…
Here’s a few recent articles: 13 Facts About L. Frank Baum’s ‘Wonderful Wizard of Oz’ L. Frank Baum was a fascinating person. I had no idea. He was a chicken farmer and a traveling salesman and went around the country…
Marcia and I went on a hike and I remembered how much I love manzanita trees. From far away, manzanitas are all scraggly and ancient and gnarled looking. They look like they belong in a Van Gogh painting. Up close,…
Did you catch my most recent article in Mental Floss? It’s 11 Dickensian Facts About ‘Great Expectations’. Did you know Estella may have been based on Charles Dickens’s mistress? Also, remember the 1998 movie version with Gwyneth Paltrow and Ethan…