As an educator and owner of a small business, I try very hard to separate my personal opinions about some subjects from my everyday life.  Now this does not mean my feelings and beliefs don’t affect the way I do business or how I run my business.  Quite the contrary,...

Springbok mom, Mandy Rausch, gives us her own views and opinions on the fine art of leaving your new baby while mom goes to work. She wants you to know that the opinions are her own and she is not being compensated for this work. (Mimi adds that she is never compensate...

Mimi sends loves and kisses to all the dads out there.

My husband owns a coffee mug that has a picture of a “daddy” critter resting wearily in his chair while little critters run around him. The writing says, “Being a father is aard vark.” Indeed.

Part of me says fath...

Mimi celebrates the Fourth of July like a Yankee Doodle Dandy.

 If you happened to be an alien visiting this country from your spaceship, and if you happened to tune in to a TV set, you might think that July 4th was one of the greatest retail sales events in all histor...

Mimi begs your indulgence while she sends a few words of wisdom to the newest member of her extended family. Miss Penelope arrived around 6:30pm on May 29. It might be worth noting that the young lady held off from her supposed due date so that she could arrive under t...

While most of the colleges have graduated their 2014 students, and are deep into that modern misery called “Maymester,” high schools and lower schools are still hard at it. Many around here—thanks to the Ice Apocalypse of December 2013, are not graduating until after J...

Mimi writes again. This time she takes on the highly emotional subject of Mother’s Day—with no reverence at all!

About three week ago, I set out to write a humorous little something about Mother’s Day.  My original thought was to discuss some of the strange but wondro...

This space has been remarkable by its silence for quite awhile. This is mostly due to the fact that your friendly scribe has very little positive to say about the winter holiday seasons. This is not because she hates presents or buying presents or things like that. No,...

This post is by our resident Mimi, Betty Kay Seibt, who has the distinction of being a mother to three and a grandmother to four (mostly) lovely people.

My beloved eldest child sent me an email the other day with the message, “You need to read this.”  Now thanks to...

This post comes to us courtesy of Sarah Bynane, Sprinkbok parent and Elementary School Librarian.  She calls it “rambling” but we call it a meditation on the power of reading and the beauty of participating in your child’s learning-to-read process.

I have an almost fo...