The thing that drives me nuts about the multi-billion dollar dieting industry is that most of them know (based on multiple scientific research studies) that their approach does more harm than good … especially those that push “meal-replacements” or radically reduced calorie diets. It is healthier to be fat than it is to diet, particularly… Read more The Biggest Losers Also Lose Their Metabolism
My dearest middle daughter, Buttercup, friend of sea lions and the sprinkles on the cupcake of my life, turns 9 years old today. Buttercup’s birthday is on Beltane and is shared with Mother Jones, and both these things kinda sum up my precious child. She is as wonderful as a warm spring day bursting with… Read more Happy Birthday Buttercup!
My little dog Foxy is very sweet. When we first got her, she wasn’t very cute. Life on the mean streets had left her patchy and emaciated. She looked better after a few weeks of food and love, but still … a pretty scruffy little nerf=herder. She looks much better now. This morning she leaped… Read more Wee Foxy Has a Boo-Boo
Ever since North Carolina passed that ludicrous law demanding that people go potty in the bathroom that matches their birth-assigned gender my social media has lit up with posts in support of the law and posts decrying it. Some of the people supporting the law have a hatred of anything NOT heteronormal dripping off the… Read more Who is a Danger in Bathrooms?
Today is my darling husband’s fortieth birthday, and we took the kids out of school for a day to celebrate Sweet Babou’s big 40 properly. We drove up to the Indy Zoo and White River park to have some fun in the sun with our hun! We rented a quadruple-bicycle-buggy-thingy (its technical name, really) and… Read more Sweet Babou Turns 40 Today!
Eighteen authors (including ME!) will be in London on 24 September to talk about history, discuss our books, answer question, mingle with our readers, and sign things if you want them signed. All proceeds are going to help the good people examining the Mary Rose winkle yet more facts out of her remains …… Read more Meet The Authors!
Earth Day is celebrated on this date because the environmental movement really got started on April 22, 1970. The idea for a national day to focus on the environment came to Earth Day founder Gaylord Nelson, then a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, after witnessing the ravages of the 1969 massive oil spill in Santa Barbara,… Read more Happy Earth Day!
This date is a big one, vis-à-vis English monarchial history. Henry VII died on 21 April 1509 and Queen Elizabeth II was born on the same day in 1926. When Henry died, an ungrateful nation rejoiced because he had rebuilt their stability and standing in Europe via badly needed tax revenue. His son Henry… Read more The King is Dead, Long Live the Queen
This is our rescue dog, Foxy: When we adopted her from an animal shelter in September she was nearly hairless from malnutrition and living on the street, and so starved you could see every bone in her body. The vet says someone tried to breed her but non of her pups lived long enough to… Read more Foxy Only Barks at Passive-Aggressive Behavior
In many ways I’ve been dreading Blossom’s adolescence. Not only does her Asperger’s mean that the normal strum and drang of the adolescent brain become even more erratically dramatic, it also means that trouble with her peers is nearly inevitable. I hate that. Autism in females presents both differently from males, and in several different… Read more Worries for Blossom