Pater Familias

Adding fuel to the fire of the language-affects-thought debate . The English language has only one meaning for the first-person plural pron...

It's Saturday (one of the days not named in honor of the Æsir ), so allowed Diane to sleep in (having craftily ensured her alarm-clock ...

I indulge myself at times. Well, yes. Perhaps this is the first time I've indulged in understatement? We were finished with dinner, whe...

We were at table, eating breakfast ("magic" eggs and sweet Italian sausage), when the radio began playing some sweet and pure and ...

Though we're just a one-van family right now, we seem to find ourselves on long road trips. Fairfax went to Massachusetts with us to ca...

As the D-meister has mentioned , we are helping spread the word on Infantile Spasms. We got our own Fairfax and lugged *her* around on our ...

Fairfax, my God-daughter's bunny, is now visiting Hawty McBloggy . I found this out, when, out of the blue, her daddy, marissas dad , ca...