TechnoEarthMama

Saturday night I took my nine-year-old daughter to a skating party at Gresham Skate World, the same rink we went to when I was a kid. I don’t skate often any more. The last time was probably when she was two.  I’ve never been any kind of expert skater, but I’ve always been able to [...]

We love our cubicles in Portland.  Or rather, we love our CubeSpace, which has cubicles, offices, and meeting rooms for rent by the hour, day, or month as needed.  CubeSpace  is a great place for independent techies and writers (as well as other small businesses) to work without the bother of setting up a traditional [...]

I broke down and bought some spinach at the local farmers’ market this past weekend, because it’s one of the few vegetables actually available right now.  I admitted the other day that I normally buy pre-washed spinach in the plastic bag, because I hate washing regular spinach, but this week I figured I’d better just [...]

I wish I knew more people in my neighborhood.  Or do I already know them? We’ve lived here for almost four years now. I talk to our elderly next-door neighbor sometimes.  I chat with the young man who lives across the street occasionally.  We used to attend church with an elderly couple a few houses [...]

I never, ever videotape shows any more (yes, we still have a VCR, and no, we don’t have a DVR). On Tuesday, I’m making an exception, because Matthew Amster-Burton, author of Hungry Monkey (and my brother-in-law) will be appearing on CBS’s The Early Show with my niece, Iris. What’s Hungry Monkey?  Originally, Matthew told me [...]

If I could, I’d love to homeschool my kids.  I have enough education and experience working with kids to do it well, even if I’m not a certified teacher.  And as public schools are cutting programs, curriculum, and employees, homeschooling sounds better and better. But it’s not a good financial option for my family right [...]

Yesterday I made this year’s first trip to the local farmers’ market.  It’s a small, neighborhood market, so unfortunately the produce pickings were slim.  It’s still the early season for produce in Oregon, but the market also had only one real produce vendor (out of 15-20 total vendors).  That vendor had asparagus, kale, mustard greens, [...]

I’m dead tired tonight, and couldn’t deal with any of the topics on my list of things to blog about.  Still, I wanted to do some kind of writing, even if it wasn’t fit for public consumption.  So I’ve been writing, in a very rough form, my technology memoir. New genre?  Sure. You see, when [...]