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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...

When I first saw ads for House of the Dragon, I was profoundly confused. Who wants this?!? My reaction shouldn't be surprising, the...

One of the fastest growing segments of American whiskey is perhaps not what you'd think. Spirits made predominantly from corn (see:...

We've been tempted to get into sourdough for a while now. The bread and the rest are super tasty but going down that road can be a little...

Last week we were in Alaska again and, while it's always a good trip, it brings some challenges both physical and emotional. From MSP...

1968 was a tumultuous year of protest. Anti-government and anti-authoritarian sentiment, amongst a host of other issues, resulted in...

We're attempting to get a couples with young children small group off the ground with some people at our church and had our first little...

Until very recently I knew the name Burt Reynolds, but to be honest I think I'd only completed one of his movies, the original The...

This spring I developed an idea to build a sandbox for our kids and wanted to get it done about as quickly as possible. It became a...

Today is the 80th anniversary of D-Day, Operation Overlord , the Allied invasion of France during World War II. It was the largest...

As a kid I was relayed the old wives' tale that men inherit their hair from their maternal grandfather and, since mine was completely...

I've been struggling with what whiskey post to do next, mostly thinking it would be another individual bottle. Then I realized I had...

Since learning my cholesterol rose rapidly in the last year or so (see here), I've pretty successfully changed my diet. This is an update...

After we finished The Hobbit I was determined to regularly keep reading better, longer books to our firstborn. The next book seemed...

Maybe you've heard about the new show from FX (and Hulu) called Shōgun . It's a mini-series, meaning one season only, and is an...

I've been reading Polybius, 'The Histories' (or according to Penguin Classics, 'The Rise of the Roman Empire'). A second century BC Greek...

I'm sure I've said in the past how kid #1, our son, is basically my Mini-Me. It's not a reference to how he looks, it's that he generally...

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...