Every time I cross off an item on my to-do list another, bigger and badder than the first, appears at the bottom. I’ve finally worked out what’s happening! My to-do list has been infected by the same spell that magicked Bartholomew Cubbins. Maybe one day I’ll cross off that magic 500th thing and… nothing. No…
Life
The Cell Song
At school last week Jeckle (my youngest Barbarian) started learning about cells. He’s really enjoying it and we’ve had some great discussions about cells, how they work, types of cells etc. As part of our discussions I told him that at some point he’d learn about the parts of cells and how they work. We…
Dust storm
A week or to ago, Canberra was hit with a dust storm. It came in really quickly – at least the visible dust did. My eyes started reacting before I could see anything. It coated everything in a thick red layer – carried in with strong winds (up to 90km/hr or 56 miles/hr) from the…
Staying creative
Jacqui Murray (on her Wordreams blog here) recently posed the question “Am I creative?”. She was asking what you did to be creative outside of writing time. The responses were interesting, both in terms of who was creative in other ways, but also in terms of what people categorised as creative activities. My response really…
The wisdom of kids
A teacher who works with young kids shared some of the quotes she’s heard online. I thought there were a couple worth repeating: Happiness doesn’t come from trying to be happy. It comes from focusing on other people’s happiness (3rd grader) There are no barriers in our minds – we can think of anything (3rd…