Untimely Meditations

(Daddy reads passage in novel in which the Doctor "lies prostrate") E (lying on back): "Is prostrate like this?" (rolls ...

E was asking me today if I'd rather have one trillion dactyls, or one teradactyl. D, naturally, corrected him: they're *terra*dactyl...

E: "If if the earth were the size and weight of a bowling ball, would it be a good bowling ball?" Me: "No. There's no h...

1. The two great insights of Dr. Seuss's Green Eggs and Ham were that monologues are more interesting if your characters move rapidly a...

(I will refer to my sons on my blog, from here on in, as "D" and "E", although in real life their letters are in an enti...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcM9QsZNRxM E (my 8-year-old): "Can you play the Indelicates video with the old people? What's it...

My ten-year-old, presumably introducing a joke: "What's the difference between a garden slug and a two-inch trail of snot?" ...

1. My eight-year-old has correctly noted that if "sheep" is going to insist on being a plural noun, the singular ought to be ...

Taking the "chicken or the egg" conundrum on its own intended terms, I've long thought it was an easy one: the egg came first....

My 8-year-old is singing to himself a song he made up about a "mini-Snoopy Batplane" while flying a toy plane around. That's n...

I've helped my 10-year-old brainstorm, as an English assignment, an original "just-so story" myth explaining the origin of an ...

I doubted my 10-year-old when he claimed he could turn his head 360 degrees, but it turns out he can! Holding his neck still, he moved his b...