IdyllopusPress Presents

What I’ve been doing the past month is I decided to take “Unending Wonders of a Subatomic World in Search of the Great Penguin” and self-publish it via Lulu. A thing where they print one at a time, take a percentage of the commission, not a dirty underhanded vanity press, it’s the Cafepress [...]

Wow! Imagine yourself riding the Flaming Arrow Express monorail at the proposed Trail of Tears Park in Tennessee. Imagine yourself visiting the Sacred Ground Pavilion. Imagine yourself in the seats of the Great Spirit Arena. What an amazing memorial it will be honoring those American Indians who walked the [...]

Well, we will call the landlord again tomorrow with the news that it is very nice our sink now drains but that tearing out that part of the wall and replacing a corroded joint did not fix the flooding. Because the bathroom flooded again today and this time I was able to catch it [...]

I’m wondering tonight about idiosyncratic skills people pick up naturally and what might belong or have belonged to some individuals reading.
The second place Marty and I lived after we were married was a second floor in a house that had a screened porch. We had no air conditioning of course, the house was ancient [...]

H.o.p. was mortified when he learned that drone bees are kicked out of the hive to die. In tonight’s story-play-game he is a drone bee who has made himself useful by making a map of the hive (so bees can find their way to the nursery etc.) and protecting the hive from intruders. [...]

The line that most stood out in H.o.p.’s stream-of-consciousness story last night (I get at least an hour of stories like this a day). He blends his stories with actions he is making. I was washing dishes. He came in and got yogurt from the refrigerator, in the middle of the relation [...]

H.o.p. carries his huge stack of drawing paper from the living room to his computer table. He drops part of it. “Stupid gravity!” he exclaims. “I hate gravity!”
He frequently complains about gravity and says he wishes it didn’t exist.
I did not complain about gravity when I was his age.
Sitting on the desk [...]

(Excerpted from Unending Wonders of a Subatomic World in Search of the Great Penguin )
If what Faith and Chance could not comprehend they could not imagine they could not possibly themselves discover then the field of New Physics was no place for them; and outside the study of the subatomic (well, there is no outside [...]

Last night at around 3 AM I was looking at a photo of an Iraqi man holding up to the camera eye a dead baby in diapers. I always wake up a couple of hours after I go to sleep and I get up and drink some water and read a little or work a [...]

Ah, the travails and uncertainties of homeschooling. This chapter I’m naming “Alice in Wonderland” science.
We’re listening to “Carmina Burana” this morning, an old favorite of H.o.p.’s, because it was used in a video at a website on the “4th Revolt”, which I came across via Pen Elayne. The idea over at the [...]