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The original plan for Arizona was to write up Chase Field, the home ballpark of the Arizona Diamondbacks. We saw a game there for the...

As I've said in the past (The Cactus League), we have family in Arizona and we travel down with some regularity, maybe once a year. At...

I recently finished reading The Hobbit to my five year old. It was easily the longest, most complex book we've read to him in totality (I...

Two things have Japan currently at the forefront of my mind. First, Shohei Ohtani and U.S. newcomer Yoshinobu Yamamoto joining the...

The first year with a kid can be a challenge for a dad. It's hard to connect with a little baby like a mother does, we don't have the...

Dune: Part 2 (2024) is in theaters now and I made sure to see it in IMAX opening weekend. It was great fun to attend an event movie with...

It's cliche right now to say that this or that movie couldn't be made today. There are cases where it's true, however, though it's...

The ongoing war in Gaza is not the only major event currently on-going in the Middle East. As a direct result of the war the Houthis, a...

If, like me, you frequently browse the whiskey selection in liquor stores, you've probably noticed a brand called Barrell. They have a...

Not too long ago I was toying with writing a 'cooking as therapy' post. Over the last few years I've been taking over more and more of...

Sometimes with movies (or whatever else) it's easy to wonder if your recollection of something was perhaps an extension of a particular...

I haven't always been good about going to the doctor for routine, preventative visits, but I have made it in twice in the last two years....

It's dry January and I don't plan on a bottle review this month. So it's a good time to resume teaching, and learning, about what goes...

I've meant to write more about Israel and the Middle East at large since the Oct 7th attacks, but life is busy, you know? Still the...

With our first two children, the boys, we had few problems with sleeping through the night. #1 from birth was an incredible sleeper and...

As a kid Spider-Man my favorite superhero. I liked whatever cartoons he appeared in and, as a teen, loved the Sam Raimi live action...

A lot of the whiskey I've written up comes from the big-name distilleries and producers, and I've wanted to branch out a little more,...

At some point or another you've likely heard that Christmas, the observance of Jesus' birth, is celebrated on different dates by...

Last weekend a couple friends and I were in Las Vegas. As stated previously (see Vegas during Covid), we go about once a year, but this...

With a certain tweet (yes, it's a tweet) making the rounds last week I decided it was time to earn my Minnesotan cred for real. If you...