Archive for November, 2006



Kayla is 18 months!

Published on 11/29/2006

Adorable. Cute. Sassy. Fun.

I’m sure she does not see the irony of her, with a head that measures off the charts (greater than 100th percentile), wearing my cap that says, “fatbrain.com.”


Totally scrumptious!

Published on 11/19/2006

For all of you not married to a food-loving, systematic, engineer of a husband, you have my condolences.
Over the last month or so, my husband has methodically tested many pancake recipes in search of the ‘perfect’ pancake. And he has achieved it. He altered recipes one ingredient at a time to learn [...]


compressed air is so passe

Published on 11/17/2006

Every geek worth his salt is bound to get requests to fix aged and ailing computers. A friend of mine, who shall remain nameless, dropped his ancient Dell off in the hopes that I could salvage some of the files off the disk. A few months ago it had crashed so he reinstalled the OS, [...]


and then they were four.

Published on 11/16/2006

Before committing any impressions of dear little Lucas to print, I wanted some time to elapse. Words committed to print can take on a life of their own so I wanted the birthing dust to settle, external pressures to abate, and just feel a tad more normal before making proclamations.
We are now three and half [...]


Lucas, aka Junior 2.0

Published on 11/9/2006

Ladies and gentlemen, I proudly introduce you to Lucas.

More photos are available in the photo gallery.


Pop in the news

Published on 11/8/2006

My very own father makes it into the Traverse City newspaper and nobody seems to know a thing about it?!

Now that you are famous, “Dad, can I have your autograph?”