Miser Mom

So, there's this mindset I'm discovering in my new job.   Administrators hear a lot of complaints, and in particular, they hear a lo...

A while back, my daughter told me that she missed having a mailbox with a flag -- the kind of flag you raise to let the mail carrier you hav...

In our latest installment of "Stuff Made Out of Other Stuff", the Miser Maker Conglomerate is pleased to present . . . the Mud Kit...

It turns out, the buried treasure in the walls of my home amounted to 5 pennies and a soggy Jolly Rancher. Two years ago, we had put in an o...

 5:36 to 8:37, that's sunrise to sunset today.   If you include "civil twilight", it's 5:03 to 9:10.   I love the sunshine...

I'm slowly and methodically cleaning out my math office, getting ready to move to our big old administrative building.  And as part of t...

 Here's the view from my bed this morning, looking up.   The ceiling fixture used to be a dim little light fixture whose power cord was ...