5:35 am [soft crying] “Mama…mama…” Since Mama is sleeping, I get up to check on Toddler Harbat. With concern I see that 5:35 is about 45 minutes from my wake-up time. Unless this is something quick to solve, I won’t…
Monthly Archives: September 2010
Self-Reliance or Staged Theater?
When I first saw promos for The Colony, a new reality show on the Discovery channel, I was excited. Here would finally be the ideal show about handmade things. If you haven’t heard about it, the premise is that there’s…
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with: Bear Grylls, Discovery Channel, food, foraging, hunting, television, The Colony
Podcast Update
Now it’s official: the podcast is on iTunes! In the iTunes store, search for Handmade Parenting and you’ll find it. I did some searches for “super awesome fantastic” and “totally incredibly mind-blowing” but they didn’t lead to the podcast. Soon…
How to Destroy Your Bathroom, Pt. 3
I really ought to rename this series “How to Rebuild Your Bathroom”. That’s right, Uncle F#@k-Up, as the spinmeisters say, is trending upward. Demolition of the bathroom finished on Friday afternoon with the removal of a nasty clogged pipe. How…
An Ode to My Daughter’s Hair
When my daughter was born her hair was like spider silk. It couldn’t be combed or styled, just smoothed down in a rough dome shape. By the time she turned one, her hair wasn’t thick enough to hold even the…
