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As part of the Christmas gift for my mom this year, I had the idea to put together a shortlist of approachable history books. She likes...

The due date was December 17th. Right now only one hospital visitor is allowed per mother giving birth, and even in normal times children...

Most vacations we take aren't very relaxing. That's as true now as it was before we had kids, though where we go and what we do has...

My wife has a mostly typical work schedule and is usually only busy during the week. Like most people, the weekends are for everything...

We won't be traveling to Minnesota for either Thanksgiving or Christmas this year, with the baby due in December. So we decided to go in...

The Presidential election is tomorrow. It'd certainly be best if we know the winner sooner rather than later. Today I think it's a good...

It turns out lots of behaviors you learn and know in life are largely regional, and this becomes profoundly clear when leaving your...

It's often said the time to move a toddler out of their crib is when they start climbing out. That never happened for us. Instead we...

On (Fri) Sept 18th of this year, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg passed away at 87. She was a political and cultural icon well...

This post definitely goes with the idea this blog is sometimes a sorta virtual scrapbook. Ideally, whether or not I write for that long,...

I, shall we say, can be a bit obsessive about organization and tidiness. In general this is seen in the way our house looks but...

We've started potty training in earnest, which my wife courageously began without me during my weekend in Vegas . Our son went naked...

Think of me what you will, but a friend and I traveled to Las Vegas this past weekend. After getting a few nights comped at the Palazzo...

If you actually know me and didn't already know the following I apologize for not sharing. We're expecting our second child in December....

Board games, particularly strategy games, have always been something I enjoy. As a kid through elementary and middle school I played a...

This was supposed to be a happy post. Going to be called 'The boys are back!' I'd cover the return of baseball over the weekend. It's...

I really tried to finish enough blog posts to cover an absence of more than a week. Not quite succeeding, at least I only missed one....

Our son Jack turned two. I can barely believe it. It doesn't, by any means, feel like we brought him home yesterday. I was still working...

to consider myself a Minnesotan right now. Minnesotans hugely pride themselves on their way of life, which includes having competent and...

Since we moved to Maryland in 2014, I've always been at home. Most of that time I had a remote job in software QA. Things definitely...