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Reflections on NaBloPoMo and Writing to Become a Better Parent

November 30, 2008

NaBloPoMo stands for National Blog Posting Month, where you commit to yourself to write one blog post a day for an entire month (i.e., this past month). Allow me to be self-congratulatory and say, I did it! This was also NaNoWriMo (kind of what got this sort of thing started), which stands for National Novel [...]

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Major Mea Culpa

November 12, 2008

OK, I just noticed that during a recent upgrade of the blog software I apparently imploded the tag searching and search box features and never even noticed it. My bad. Well that’s embarrassing. It should work now.

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Join Us On Facebook!

November 7, 2008

OK, as geeky as I tend to be, the whole social networking site thing hasn’t particularly been my cup of tea. Most of them are black holes of uselessness in my opinion. I am kinda digging Facebook, though. I’m running into people I haven’t talked to in years. So, let’s try an experiment. I created [...]

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The Adventure Begins – Again!

October 5, 2008

It’s a whole new day at Both Hands and a Flashlight! Mary and I are overjoyed to announce that I am not pregnant! Phew. However, Mary is!!!!!!!!! Yep, that was a bun in the oven. Mary has a hysterical story to tell about that, at my expense of course. But I’m a good sport about [...]

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Taciturn, Twisty Tuesdays

September 30, 2008

  [Update - The point of all this is now explained here.]

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Both Hands and a Flashlight 2.0 Coming Soon

September 24, 2008

Boy do we have all sorts of crazy excitement about to land on our blog soon. There’s a blog redesign, new links and resources pages, a couple of what I think are exciting product reviews (working on some freebies and discounts for readers too), more about autism and presidential candidates than you probably care to [...]

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Help Make Both Hands and a Flashlight Better!

July 19, 2008

I’m contemplating a variety of improvements to our blog, though given that we’re parents first and everything else second, time is always scarce. So I’m seeking input from you all on what you’d like to see more of, what you think would make the site more enjoyable and easier to use, and whatever else you [...]

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New Blog Features

June 9, 2008

In our continuing work to make your time here at Chez Flashlight more informative and enjoyable, we’ve implemented a few new features to help our growing (!!) readership. Today we added the following new stuff for y’all to play with. We’d love to hear whether it works or doesn’t for you. As always, please share [...]

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