Category Archives: Big Bang

Nut-Free Zone

Posted on September 9, 2008 by Tentative Equinox North

Be warned. This is an R-rated post. Mom, you can just avert your eyes, or have Sarah read you the funny bits. As I was getting a coffee at the public market I noticed a vendor selling nuts and chocolate. … Continue reading →

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Jump! JUMP for the Math!

Posted on September 4, 2008 by Tentative Equinox North

For the last 3 days I have watched in growing astonishment as my LD, ADHD, Aspergers daughter has completed multiple pages of…wait for it…MATH WORKSHEETS–fractions no less–with focus, attention and understanding. The work has been tidy and she’s completed it … Continue reading →

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Fast ForWord Musings

Posted on August 27, 2008 by Tentative Equinox North

So, I went to a seminar by Dr. Steve Miller yesterday. Dr. Miller is a co-founder and Vice President of Scientific Learning Corporation which is the developer of Fast ForWord. Really fascinating stuff. It’s interesting to see what happens to the energy … Continue reading →

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Warning Lights

Posted on August 22, 2008 by Tentative Equinox North

As I unbuckled my youngest from his car seat, I took a look at the back seat of my car. Oh dear. Suddenly, an unwelcome epiphany crystallized into a dark forbidding mass that could no longer be ignored. This was my epiphany: … Continue reading →

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Earthquake!

Posted on July 31, 2008 by Tentative Equinox North

So, there we were. Day 6 of vacation. I was waiting for Silvie (Tentative Equinox South) to pick me up for some adventures in Los Angeles, and Lloyd had taken the kids to Knott’s Water Slides. 11:42am: I had just finished … Continue reading →

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Be My Own Stage Manager

Posted on June 16, 2008 by Tentative Equinox North

Writing the post “Overheard in My Brain,” while also being great fun to write, gave me an epiphany: I need to be my own stage manager. The stage manager has a cue-book, with the script, the blocking and all the … Continue reading →

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Fast ForWord Comes to Surrey

Posted on June 11, 2008 by Tentative Equinox North

Fast ForWord will now be offered in Surrey. I’m very excited. Continue reading →

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Health at Every Size

Posted on June 5, 2008 by Tentative Equinox North

This is a great post from Shapely Prose, “An Anthropologist on Mars” Go read it. This is kind of what I’ve been getting at with this post but fillyjonk has articulated it much better than I did I think. I got the micro … Continue reading →

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Lurking in Doorways

Posted on May 28, 2008 by Tentative Equinox North

“Come in, my child. We mustn’t lurk in doorways. It’s rude.” ~ Ursula, the Sea-Witch, The Little Mermaid I’m a doorway lurker. There I’ve said it. Don’t judge me too harshly. I don’t do it to be rude. I do … Continue reading →

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The Zappass

Posted on May 3, 2008 by Tentative Equinox North

So, my car has taken to giving me a quite large, very painful static electric shock EVERY SINGLE TIME I exit. “Oh, you’d like to get OUT? ZAAAPPP!” It’s no longer a Passat it’s a Zappass. What did I do … Continue reading →

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