

Our daily ('extra tangy' sourdough) bread
A while back I wrote a post after we picked up some starter, on my first loaf of sourdough bread . It was easy and quick but used instant...

Best single season TV
After watching True Detective: Night Country, aka s4, it brought back an idea long in the hopper. This'll be a short list of single...

Homemade beef broth
We got a quarter cow three years ago and, while most everything is long gone from the freezer, we still had a number of packages labeled...

Atreides
As you likely know, I love Dune . As a much younger person I read all the books that were then out, I still have a bunch of them, and...

Dakota City Heritage Village
This year we were invited by a family in our church small group to a nearby historic Christmas town. In Farmington, MN, like 15 minutes...

Before you've left them
Life doesn't ever slow down once you have kids, or at least it hasn't for us. In fact it seems to constantly be accelerating. While life...

The Tennessee Whiskey Experience (Nashville)
A couple friends and I spent last weekend in Nashville, there to see the Vikings play the Titans. It was the first time in Music City for...

When naps are gone
For boy #2 we're in a period of transitioning away from naps. Remember, this is the one I once named ' the baby tornado , ' an apt...

Stranger Things
In 2016, when Stranger Things debuted, it immediately became a favorite show of mine . Arguably #1. Mix a bit of Stephen King, a bit of...

Flashback: Portland ME, 2019
In October 2019 we made a weekend excursion up to Maine. We had only one kid, a little over a year old, and I'd been staying home with...

The Iranian Revolution and the hostage crisis
Since last year's October 7th attack on Israel I've wanted to write (and learn/refresh myself) more about the Middle East. Finding the...

Smoky garden chili
Friends from our church invited us over for a chili cook-off this past weekend, and both my wife and I made one. Hers was a longtime...

Robust Rye stand-off (Rare Breed, OE7, New Riff SiB)
I'd been back and forth on whether to do another whiskey comparison before resuming more intimate looks at individual bottles, or...

Stone Mountain (Atlanta)
We had the shortest of trips this week, as my wife and I visited Atlanta without the kids. The purpose was twofold. My wife wanted to...

Muppet Treasure Island
This year I started reading some longer, more advanced books to our eldest (and the two others if they sit still and be quiet), who's...

Lisa it's your birthday
Our daughter and youngest just turned two recently. It made me think of something. The Simpsons has always been big, essential really, in...

First real busy summer
Time flew the fastest this summer and I'm both kinda sad it's over and glad for it. Prior to this year we'd travel a little bit and...

Chariots of Fire
The Olympics are over, but there's still a good story to tell and you'll have to pretend this was more timely. This year, for the XXXIII...

Brain fog
I don't often get sick, and when I do it's not often all that bad or for all that long. Most of the time when I sense a bad headache or a...



















