The Inconsequential Blogger

I have a new short story up on my other blog . This story really is very short. In fact it's not quite complete. The idea for it came t...

The quote above was penned by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich while writing an article about notable women in American history. I believe it was mea...

A quote from today's Cleveland Plain Dealer (the full article can be found here ): " Ayaan H irsi Ali, a feminist detractor of ...

We've found a name for our kitten. It's a very appropriate name. It takes into consideration her temperament and disposition. It fit...

The Large Hadron Collider : ... will be switched on this Wednesday. Will it be the answer to particle physicist's dreams ? ~OR~ Will it ...

Last night my husband and I went on a Spider Walk lead by a biologist at the University of Akron. It took place at the UA Field Station whic...

The little kitten is making itself at home: She is officially a girl. And we are officially keeping her. Her unofficial name is Monkey beca...

I cooked up some goldenrod salve using the goldenrod infused oil I made the other day. On the left is the goldenrod oil right after I made...

On Labor Day my family and I visited three bogs which are close by here in northeast Ohio. The bogs were created when pieces of glaciers bro...

The sunflowers have begun to bloom in my garden! They're so tall, somewhere around 9ft. I had to stand over between the zucchini and the...

Something got into our corn. It knocked down several plants and ate the corn off of the cob. I've heard, or read, somewhere that Native ...

Calendula! I've harvested the first of my calendula. I almost didn't want to cut these pretty blossoms, but lots more are on their w...

The little kitten from yesterday's post, the one that some people were going to leave to fend for itself in the mountains of Pennsylvani...

My daughter went camping and came home with this: It doesn't stay still for long. My daughter met some people in the mountain woodlands ...

This is my second-ever bloom day post. Woot ! I love looking at other bloom day posts to see what's blooming in other people's garde...