When our oldest daughter started devouring the Spiderwick Chronicles, we dove in right alongside her. I was particularly riveted by the way Arthur Spiderwick's office was depicted, all rife with leather-bound field journals and specimens and glass cloche domes covering interesting objects. It wasn't the series that kicked off this interest, I'm afraid: it's long-standing. A magazine article years ago (which I'm disappointed I can't seem to locate) introduced me to a New England home with a ... View Post
Plan a Perseid Picnic
When I was a kid, we lived in Jamaica... and yes, it was a phenomenal experience. My Dad has always been intrigued with the cosmos (it's worth reading the origin of that word, in my opinion), and so I thought it was common during childhood to be pulled from bed in the middle of the night to observe some sky-event. In fact, we lived there when Halley's Comet was last visible in 1986, and I remember viewing it through Dad's telescope in front of our house, which sat on top of Stony Hill and ... View Post
